Here’s a personal top of five Transylvanian Saxon fortified towns/cities you should definitely visit while travelling in Transylvania, central Romania. All these fortified cities were founded during the High Middle Ages by the Transylvanian Saxons, a predominantly German ethnic group which is part of the broader group of the Germans of Romania. These fortified cities…
Disclaimer: This article is nothing more but a mere pamphlet, thus it should be treated in a purely humorous manner and not otherwise. The following map portrays, in a strikingly comic way, the perception of the Norsemen (Vikings) about medieval Europe in the year 1000. Key: 1) The Viking Realms (i.e. Denmark, Norway and Sweden);…
Bj쎶rn Ironside is one of the main characters in the Irish-Canadian TV series ‘Vikings’ on History Channel. In the show, he is depicted as the son of Ragnar Lothbrok and shieldmaiden Lagertha. From the historical point of view, Bj쎶rn, along with most of the characters in the serial, have been inaccurately portrayed. This, evidently enough,…
The Transylvanian Saxon dialect is a rather old and conservative dialect of the German language that was mainly spoken in Transylvania, central Romania prior to 1989, before most of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated abroad (it is still spoken there but in considerably smaller numbers than it used to be), most notably to unified Germany but…
Floki is one of the main characters in the Irish-Canadian production ‘Vikings’ on History Channel. Although he might be simply made up by the writers and producers of the show, he can be at the same time loosely based on a certain Fl쎳ki Vilger쎰arson, who is known to have been the first Norseman to have…
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