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Scholars finally deemed it permissible, so coffeehouses sprang up in Damascus, Istanbul, and beyond, where clientele could sip coffee, smoke, and enjoy a variety of entertainment.

On the other hand, scholar Doris Sommer argues that Iracema’s son represents the point “where an unmistakably Brazilian past blends with an unpredictable future.”

This myth likely arose when a 17th century Danish scholar called Ole Worm mistranslated a reference to animal horns.

Many scholars have argued that Iracema’s death symbolizes the idea that Indigenous people’s way of life needed to be destroyed in order to create this new, unified nation.

Old Norse only became a literary language after Christianized Icelandic scholars adopted Latin script around the 12th century.