Andelkrag Castle, Minas Tirith and Kospoda

[Aldarion]

Found it after reading Prince Valiant:

Andelkrag Castle, Minas Tirith, and Kospoda

Andelkrag Castle and Minas Tirith are well known in the fantasy literature. This book explores the legends connected with these castles and traces them back to a real castle and a real story behind it. A thorough investigation allows to reconstruct how this real castle came into existence in an...

books.google.hr

 

[Olorgando]

Found it after reading Prince Valiant:

Andelkrag Castle, Minas Tirith, and Kospoda

Andelkrag Castle and Minas Tirith are well known in the fantasy literature. This book explores the legends connected with these castles and traces them back to a real castle and a real story behind it. A thorough investigation allows to reconstruct how this real castle came into existence in an...

books.google.hr

Highly interesting (and even more interesting that an English-language article, apparently written by a German, is to be found on a Hungarian site (hr = Hungary?))

But one statement is definitely excessive: "Yet the Saxons fled the Huns, mounted their ships and set off to colonize Britain."
A few Saxons, together with some Angles and Jutes, so go the half-legends.
First, Charlemagne still had his hands very full in dealing with "heathen" Saxons: "In the Saxon Wars, spanning thirty years and eighteen battles, he conquered Saxonia and proceeded to convert it to Christianity." This is well over 300 years after Attila.
And even in today's Germany, three of the states still have "Saxon" in their names: Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony "proper". And present-day Thuringia also has a long history of being part of one or the other Saxon realm (duchy, kingdom, …). The name Thuringia (re-)appeared after World War I.

 

[Aldarion]

Highly interesting (and even more interesting that an English-language article, apparently written by a German, is to be found on a Hungarian site (hr = Hungary?))

Hr. is actually Croatian domain (hr - Hrvatska), and it is .hr because I am from Croatia so Google Books automatically pasted it that way. Site itself is not Croatian.

For the information, Hungarian domain is .hu.

But one statement is definitely excessive: "Yet the Saxons fled the Huns, mounted their ships and set off to colonize Britain."
A few Saxons, together with some Angles and Jutes, so go the half-legends.
First, Charlemagne still had his hands very full in dealing with "heathen" Saxons: "In the Saxon Wars, spanning thirty years and eighteen battles, he conquered Saxonia and proceeded to convert it to Christianity." This is well over 300 years after Attila.
And even in today's Germany, three of the states still have "Saxon" in their names: Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony "proper". And present-day Thuringia also has a long history of being part of one or the other Saxon realm (duchy, kingdom, …). The name Thuringia (re-)appeared after World War I.

Aye, that is true.

 

[Olorgando]

Hr. is actually Croatian domain (hr - Hrvatska), and it is .hr because I am from Croatia so Google Books automatically pasted it that way. Site itself is not Croatian.
For the information, Hungarian domain is .hu.

Aha, one of those traps for the unwary, like CH for Switzerland (in German "Schweiz", in French "La Suisse", in Italian "Svizzera", and in Romansh "Svizra").
Those four language populations apparently went for a sort of "neutral" language, so CH is actually Latin (!) "Confoederatio Helvetica".
And a list of vehicle country codes shows that CR (which would have been my "suspect" for Croatia) is Costa Rica.
So actually a shortening of the German term "Kroatien", KR, would have been slightly closer to the mark to HR.
But KR is the ISO country code for South Korea (not the vehicle country code, that's ROK - ah, bureaucracy!)

 

[Aldarion]

Aha, one of those traps for the unwary, like CH for Switzerland (in German "Schweiz", in French "La Suisse", in Italian "Svizzera", and in Romansh "Svizra").
Those four language populations apparently went for a sort of "neutral" language, so CH is actually Latin (!) "Confoederatio Helvetica".
And a list of vehicle country codes shows that CR (which would have been my "suspect" for Croatia) is Costa Rica.
So actually a shortening of the German term "Kroatien", KR, would have been slightly closer to the mark to HR.
But KR is the ISO country code for South Korea (not the vehicle country code, that's ROK - ah, bureaucracy!)

Many countries have codes in their native language. Korea does have .kr domain (Korea) which is in English, as do many other Asiatic countries (e.g. China, Japan); but German domain is .de, which is German (Deutschland), Spanish is .es, which is Spanish (Espana).

 

[Olorgando]

At least such things (bureaucracy is not all bad) are registered in - I guess - some sort of Excel-files and can be looked up.

Where things really get confusing is when the lazy-sloppy-slang set of any country have their "creations" picked up by the boulevard (otherwise also referred to as "yellow") press.
I'm guessing the following term originated during the 2006 FIFA Word Cup in Germany (I'm not certain - and actually I do not care).
A fan "battle cry": "Schland"
First time I heard (or read) of it my reaction was "what the *bleep* is that supposed to be?!?"
The lazy slugs just dropped Deut … *headbang*
Or various (self-)descriptions of the inhabitants of the "fifth continent".
Anglophones north of the equator trend to shorten (in writing) "Australian" to "Aussie".
As per the "natives", "Ozzie" would be the fitting transcription - and as ArwenStar has posted here, this can be shortened to "Oz" (as in some wizard in a film starring Liza Minelli's mother when the latter was still a teen-ager).
And for the term "Australian" I have stumbled across two slang shortenings of increasing compactness: "Strayan", and "Strine" …

 

[Aldarion]

And for the term "Australian" I have stumbled across two slang shortenings of increasing compactness: "Strayan", and "Strine" …

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