The Myths. 1  Everyone in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat. 2  Columbus faced opposition to his attempt to find a western route to Asia because people thought the earth was flat.
King Alfred of Wessex was careful to note this himself, suggesting a wide-ranging area of settlement of the Angles, and a relatively large population. The Angles, Anglii, or Angels (the 'g' is pronounced hard, as in 'gun' not soft as with a 'j') are first mentioned by Tacitus (Germania) about AD 98. They could be related to the Teutones of Pliny and Strabo in the early first century AD, forming a group known as the Ingaevones with the Chauci and the Cimbri.
Family get-togethers at Christmas. They're all hygge too. The Danish word, pronounced hoo-ga, is usually translated into English as cosiness. But it's much more than that, say its aficionados-an entire attitude to life that helps Denmark to vie with Switzerland and Iceland to be the world's happiest country. Morley College, in central London, is teaching students how to achieve hygge as part of its Danish language course.