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.
Since mass immigration started in the 1970s languages like Turkish, Serbo-Croatic, Urdo and Arabic have gained significant ground. 1  The only official language in Denmark is Danish (called Dansk in their language), spoken by around 90% percent of the population. Traditionally three other languages are spoken: Danish is a Germanic language so closely related to Norwegian and Swedish that the three languages are mutually understandable.