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.
Three additional letters not found in the Latin alphabet round out the Danish and Norwegian alphabets: Ã¦, Ã¸ and Ã¥. However, if you were to ask any Danish child how many letters are in their alphabet, they will tell you that there are 28 letters according to the âAlphabet Songâ. In Danish, the ABCs end with the words âotte-og-tyve skal der stÃ¥â, which mean âthat makes twenty-eightâ. So, where is the missing letter?