At the Thanedd ball, Yennefer of Vengerberg describes Keira Metz as "quite the spitfire". This term is a reference to the single-seat fighter aircraft Supermarine Spitfire (Fig. 1), first introduced in 1938 and most famously used by the British during the Second World War.
From this, we can infer the existence of the Spitfire plane — and thus Britain and Germany, and perhaps other Axis and Allied countries — in the universe of The Witcher. In this essay I will