Author: Victor Rouă

Kon-Tiki: A Brave And Fascinating Expedition Across The Pacific

Kon-Tiki is the title of a very interesting, fascinating, and adventurous novel by Norwegian author, ethnographer, and explorer Thor Heyerdahl which was published in 1948, based on the namesake expedition carried out one year earlier. It revolves around a brave voyage of the author alongside his crew consisting of several Norwegians and a Swede (in…


Norn, The Extinct North Germanic Language Close To Old Norse

Norn (alternatively known as Norroena) is an extinct North Germanic language which was very close to Old Norse (or norr쎸nt as it is known in Norwegian Bokm쎥l), the language the Norse spoke during the tumultuous Viking Age, a historical period of time that was part of the Early Middle Ages. It was mainly spoken in…


The Legendary Vinland: Between Fact And Fiction

The Norse discovery of North America is well-known and quite well documented throughout the passage of time, initially recounted in the famous Icelandic sagas (whose authorship was and remains quasi-anonymous) written down during the High Middle Ages in Iceland (more specifically the Saga of the Greenlanders or Gr쎦nlendinga saga as well as the Saga of…


The Minoans And The Bronze Age Collapse

The island of Crete as well as the adjacent islands in the Sea of Crete and the Libyan Sea (more specifically in the region known as the South Cretan Sea) were home to a thriving and advanced civilisation during the Bronze Age, widely regarded as Europe’s first and eldest civilisation. This civilisation was named the…


Remembering The LEGO Knights’ Kingdom Browser Games

The LEGO Knights’ Kingdom browser games were some of the most captivating browser games of my childhood. As a kid (and even to this very day) I was a big fan of LEGO and, more specifically, a big fan of the Castle and Knights’ Kingdom II theme respectively sub-theme (LEGO Knights’ Kingdom is a sub-theme…