Vikings Hidden in Declaration.

🫧 Open on Bubbles I had no intention of doing a Fourth-themed post, but JWB slyly sent me a link to Sophie Hardach’s BBC piece “ The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence ,” calling it a “simple but not actually wrong BBC piece on the varied etymologies of the lexemes that ended up in the phrase ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,’ with clickbait Viking headline.” Here’s a sample: Let’s start with the brief phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. “This iconic l