Word of Bayard's arrest has got back to Mercia. We're about to be attacked.

贝德被捕的消息一经传入西。我们就可能遭到攻击。

The Seven Kingdoms inside England at the time were East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex.

当时英格兰境内的七大王国是东盎格利王国、埃塞克斯王国、肯特王国、西王国、诺森布里王国、萨塞克斯王国和威塞克斯王国。

The blood of our men stains the ground from the walls of Camelot to the gates of Mercia.

从卡梅洛特的城墙到西的城门血染大地。

She was born in  990 CE and was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.

她出生于公元 990 ，是西伯爵利奥夫里克的妻子。

Finally, the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia  joined together against the Vikings; at the time, Wessex was led by King Alfred the Great.

最后，威塞克斯和西联合起来对抗维京人。当时，威塞克斯由阿尔弗雷德大帝领导。

To learn more about Mercia, check out our book, " Mercia - A Captivating Guide to an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England and the Invasions of the Vikings during the 9th Century."

了解有关西的更多信息，请查看我们的书“西 - 英格兰盎格鲁撒克逊王国和 9 世纪维京人入侵的迷人指南”。

By the time Alfred the Great came to the throne in 871, most of the great monasteries of Northumbria and Mercia lay in ruins and only Wessex remained as an independent kingdom.

到 871 阿尔弗雷德大帝登基时， 诺森比和西的大部分大修道院都已成为废墟， 只有威塞克斯仍然是一个独立的王国。

The Germanic tribes settled in seven smaller kingdoms, known as the Heptarchy: the Saxons in Essex, Wessex and Sussex; the Angles in East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria; and the Jutes in Kent.

日耳曼部落定居在七个较小的王国， 被称为七国制：埃塞克斯、威塞克斯和苏塞克斯的撒克逊人； 东盎格利、西和诺森比的盎格鲁； 和肯特的黄麻。

Wessex was briefly taken over by Mercia for three years in 645 CE, before it was broken up into sub-kingdoms. It would remain in pieces until Caedwalla reunited Wessex forty years later in 685 CE.

威塞克斯在公元 645 被西短暂接管了三，之后又分裂为多个子王国。 直到 40 后的 685 凯德瓦拉与威塞克斯重聚之前， 它一直处于碎片状态。

After losing its independence, the kingdom was referenced only sporadically in the early medieval annals. The last known mention of Mercia was made in 1017 AD, while the Mercian people are last mentioned in 1049 AD.

在失去独立性之后，这个王国在中世纪早期的编中只是零星地被提及。最后一次提及西是在公元 1017 ，而西人最后一次被提及是在公元 1049 。

Aethelstan would become King of Mercia following Aethelflaed's death – and become King of all Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms following his father's death. Aethelstan would complete what his forefathers started and campaigned in Scotland and all the other parts of England.

埃塞尔斯坦在埃塞尔弗莱德死后成为西国王，并在他父亲去世后成为所有盎格鲁-撒克逊王国的国王。埃塞尔斯坦将完成他的祖先在苏格兰和英格兰所有其他地区开始和竞选的事情。

In the following decades, Mercia was but a shadow of that great Anglo-Saxon Kingdom which Offa managed to establish. The ever-increasing incursions of the Vikings de-stabilized the region even further, and Mercia's territory decreased gradually – along with its power.

在接下来的几十里，西只是奥法设法建立的那个伟大的盎格鲁-撒克逊王国的影子。维京人不断增加的入侵进一步破坏了该地区的稳定，西的领土随着其权力逐渐减少。