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What the word “cairn” means

I just was amazed how people used those piles of stones (“cairns”) in order to snow the way on a terrain. There were other uses of those stones (burial, etc) but this use is so much practical.

Beowulf words

THANE – The term thegn (or thane in Shakespearean English), from OE þegn, ðegn “servant, attendant, retainer”, is commonly employed by historians to describe either an aristocratic retainer of a king or nobleman in Anglo-Saxon England, or as a class…

Medieval Period

The Middle Ages of European history (adjective form mediaeval or medieval) are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of…