Автор: Гилвен Эгларет›
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А-а, так вот почему в IV Героях орки на кабанов похожи...
В тестовом режиме открыт раздел сайта «Конвенты».
Здесь больше нет рекламы. Но могла бы быть, могла.
А-а, так вот почему в IV Героях орки на кабанов похожи...
Про моржей это устно звучало на БТС. Оркнейские острова поэтому так называются. Там добывали моржовый клык. А северные народы моржей орками называли.
Origin of the name
An old map of two island groups with the "Orcades" at left and "Schetlandia" at right. A coat of arms at top left shows a red lion rampant on a yellow shield flanked by two white unicorns. A second heraldic device is shown at bottom right below the "Oceanus Germanicus". This has two mermaids surrounding a tabula containing very small writing, topped by a yellow and blue shield.
Blaeu's 1654 map of Orkney and Shetland. The original Latin name "Orcades" was still in use by map makers at this time.
Pytheas of Massilia visited Britain sometime between 322 and 285 BC and described it as being triangular in shape, with a northern tip called Orcas.[11] This may have referred to Dunnet Head, from which Orkney is visible.[12] Writing in the 1st century AD, the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela called the islands Orcades, as did Tacitus in AD 98, claiming that his father-in-law Agricola had "discovered and subjugated the Orcades hitherto unknown"[12][13] although both Mela and Pliny had previously referred to the islands.[11] "Orc" is usually interpreted as a Pictish tribal name meaning "young pig" or "young boar".[14] The old Irish Gaelic name for the islands was Insi Orc ("island of the pigs").[15][16][Notes 3] The archipelago is known as Arcaibh in modern Scottish Gaelic, the -aibh representing a fossilized prepositional case ending. When Norwegian Vikings arrived on the islands they interpreted "orc" as orkn which is Old Norse for seal and added the suffix ey meaning "island".[18] Thus the name became Orkneyjar (meaning "seal islands") which was later shortened to Orkney in English.[16]