#Germanic

okay so I actually find your take of the story interesting but I also find it very flawed since you could literally flip it 1. You say Eldians are descended
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Hoping to catch this @GlosHistFest Spring Festival talk next weekend about the German Empire:https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/blood-and-iron-germany-1871-1918/ Memorial to the German Empire's Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde
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A thread on discovery of Proto Indo-European (PIE) Language, the ancestral Language of modern Indo-European languages that are spoken by 3.2 billion people in several continents, and the established relationship
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Let's talk a bit about "Anglo-Saxons". Official history tells us that, some time after 410 CE, some "primitive pagan Saxon barbarians" overran the former British provinces, coming from modern-day northern
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Because I'm such an impressionable person, I've gone absolutely Renaissance mad since watching the new Leonardo series - especially when I realised I could cobble together some costumes out of
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Excerpts and notes from "The Waffen-SS: A European History" SS foreign volunteer motives: 1. Anti-communism. 2. Pan-Germanic Europe/pan-Europeanism. 3. Petty nationalist hopes. 4. Greed, ambition, anti-Semitism. Contrast to the di
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Alright, let us talk a bit about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 CE) and its reemergence into pop culture as of late. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oldest-roman-body-armour-discovered-in-germany-p6lsv5jq6?fbclid=IwAR02dCYP5JM1evo
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The word "Wales" reveals the origins of Britain, and a gnawing history of Anglo-Saxon oppression…It was used by invading tribes to mean 'foreigners' or 'outsiders,' despite Brythonic peoples (latterly Welsh,
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I distinctly remember being told in college this propaganda pamphlet was a screed about non-Nords, Slavs, etc... and that Nazis considered all non-Germans to be untermensch.Just scrolld through an English
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It is always said of Icelandic that it is a very conservative language. True. Modern Icelandic is close to its Old Norse roots and has preserved morphological features long lost
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It's #InternationalKissingDay. Not an official day, but a good enough reason for me to create a language thread on the word "kiss" in different languages. So let's start! "Kiss"
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German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English. What happened? A thread. /1 English
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RANT ABOUT THE INDO-EUROPEAN QUESTIONEver since the emergence of historical linguistics as an independent branch of research, we have been aware of the existence of Indo-european languages. The reconstruction of
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Very few people understand just how sheer an impact curtailing female hypergamy as well as restricting the male tendency towards polygyny can have on the productivity and power of of
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THREAD: Latvian grammatical articles, Bible translation, and the divine name (a bit of an eclectic posting)Here is a map of national European languages classed according to usage of grammatical articles.
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You know, Trump could turn out to produce some positive consequences. After all, Caligula may have been a bad guy but rulers like Caligula helped speed the fall of the
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