The so-called Bimini Road (alternatively referred to as Bimini Wall) is a very interesting and yet, at the same time, quite peculiar submerged rock formation near the island of North Bimini, Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea. This underwater rock complex was discovered back in September 1968 and since then has been the subject of much…
Haugebonden (meaning mound peasant or farmer; bonde in Norwegian Bokm쎥l can mean both aforementioned nouns while hauge means mound or pile) is the title of a traditional Norwegian medieval ballad or folk song (also performed during Christmas or Yule time as a Christmas carol) which can trace its origins to Telemark county (fylke) in southern…
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 (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 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…
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