Irish English (or Hiberno-English, from Latin ‘Hibernia’ meaning Ireland) is a term that refers to the totality of dialects spoken and written in Ireland. Historically, English was firstly used in Ireland along with the Norman conquest in the 12th century in the geographic area corresponding to modern day Dublin, at the time known as ‘the…
Age of Empires I is the first game of the eponymous real time strategy-based video game franchise created by Ensemble Studios for Microsoft. The game was released on 2 February 1997 in the United Kingdom and in October 1997 in North America for both Microsoft Windows and Macintosh personal computers. It uses the Genie engine…
The Goths were an Eastern Germanic tribe which might have quite likely originated on the island of Gotland (from present-day G쎶taland, southern Sweden) in the Baltic Sea. They spoke the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language that mostly faded away by the 9th century AD. They were referred to as ‘Gutar/Gotar’ in Old Norse…
Mr Claus Grube, the Danish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, claims that the sarcastic, self-deprecating, and understatement types of humour that popular in Britain might trace their roots back to the Viking Age, highlighting thus a common cultural heritage between the British and the Scandinavians. According to him, it was ultimately슠the Norsemen슠that brought sarcastic humour…
According to a recent research on some walrus bones found in Iceland, the precious and reputed Lewis Chessmen that are on display at the British Museum in London and at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh might actually be Icelandic in origin. The Lewis Chessmen represent one of the fewest best preserved chess sets…
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