The subject of today’s hilarity will be nicknames from the Viking Age. (I did a post awhile back about some of my favorite royal nicknames.) As with most people living in medieval times, the Norse had no last names (surnames),… Read More
On July 14, 1789, a mob stormed the Bastille, marking the beginning of the French Revolution. At his palace at Versailles, King Louis XVI’s diary entry for that day was: “14 juillet: rien.”