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Hvítserkur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkʰvitˌsɛr̥kʏr̥], regionally also [-ˌsɛrkʰʏr̥]) is a 15 m high basalt stack along the eastern shore of the Vatnsnes peninsula, in northwest Iceland. [1]
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Hvitserk is attested to by the Tale of Ragnar's Sons (Ragnarssona þáttr).He is not mentioned in any source that mentions Halfdan Ragnarsson, one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded the Kingdom of East Anglia in 867, or vice versa, which consequently led some scholars to suggest that they are the same individual with Hvitserk being only a nickname.
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The grapheme Ć (minuscule: ć), formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages.It usually denotes [t͡ɕ], the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, including in phonetic transcription.
However, most English speakers pronounce Dutch words such as Rooibosch and veldschoen with /ʃ/, more closely following the pronunciation rules for German spelling. In contrast, certain well-established Dutch surnames and place names in the United States dating to colonial times , such as Schuyler , have sch pronounced as / s k / , which is ...