Científicos alemanes y austrlianos han descubierto, en un poema medieval, una posible prueba de que el deporte por el que se apasionan los británicos (no todos), podría tener su origen en Flandes.
Paul Campbell, of the department of English and theatre at the Australian National University, Canberra, uncovered a reference to the sport in a poem composed in 1533 and attributed to John Skelton, a popular poet and playwright of the day.
The poem links the game to immigrants from Flanders (in modern-day Belgium), France and Holland.
In the work, The Image of Ipocrisie — much of which is a diatribe against parts of the Church — Skelton also appears to rail against the Flemish weavers who settled in southern and eastern England from the 14th century. He labels them dismissively as “kings of crekettes”.
Por si fuera poco, hace unos meses, la prensa belga disfrutó de 5 minutos de gloria al saborear el patriotismo tras la revelación de que Barack Obama tiene un 1% de sangre belga, pues hace 14 generaciones uno de sus antepasados emigró a EEUU desde este bendito país.