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There, the mother tongue had already begun its centuries-long elaboration. Successive waves of invaders-the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norsemen, the Normans-all added new words, constructions and usages to the pot. Beneath the weight of this hybridization, the island's forerunner language, Celtic, vanished almost without a trace...
...Like Norsemen of old toasting Balder, the god of light, Scandinavians celebrate summer with feasting and fireworks, music festivals and folk dancing until dawn. At lunch hour, heliotropic beauties stand on every sidewalk with closed eyes and hiked skirts, "mooning at the sun," as the Swedes say. Restaurant tables are laden with summer delicacies: crayfish, trout in sour cream, fresh eels, wild strawberries. In the milky gloaming that passes for night, Copenhagen cabarets work double shifts, and the nightlong sounds of revelry prompt a tourist official's tip: "Have fun in Denmark. Sleep in the next country...
Everybody knows that Christopher Columbus was a fraud, and that the Norsemen actually discovered America. Although this knowledge does not disprove the theory that the world is round, it does raise grave doubts--so grave that the CRIMSON feels it cannot honestly publish tomorrow...
Enthusiastic believers in Viking lore have no trouble accepting the Kensington stone. Allegedly found near Kensington, Minn, by Farmer Olof Ohman in 1898, the stone, inscribed in runic characters, tells of a band of Norsemen who wandered to Minnesota in 1362 and presumably died there of Indian-trouble.* Last week Professor (of Germanic languages) Erik Wahlgren of U.C.L.A. pooh-poohed the petrophiles. He had positive proof, he said, that the stone was faked by the late Farmer Ohman...
...concluded Professor Hooton, "no matter which type they are--whether them stem from the Norsemen, Vikings, Danes or from the Stone Agers--they're Irishmen. And woe be to the man who goes there and calls them anything else...