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20 hours ago · A cooling, cosmological shield. Scouring the rich tapestry of the Norse sagas, we can find a reference to a legendary giant shield, Svalinn, which was said to protect the earth – Midgard (the realm where humans resided) - from the harsh rays of the sun. Modern linguists and academics believe the name Svalinn originates from the Old Norse word ...
20 hours ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
