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Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife. There are hundreds of such ...
The world known to the Norse. The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians. As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms. Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or Byzantine chronicles.
There is a connection to the word nesa meaning subject to public ridicule/failure/shame, i.e. "the failure/shame of swords", not only "where the sword first hits/ headland of swords" Kennings can sometimes be a triple entendre. N: Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Glymdrápa 3 ship wave-swine unnsvín: N ship sea-steed gjálfr-marr: N: Hervararkviða 27 ...
"The one who brings grief" or "she-who-offers-sorrow" Járnviðja (possibly) Partner: Loki Children: Fenrir, Jörmungandr, Hel: Gylfaginning, Völuspá hin skamma: Angurþjasi: Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Arinefja: Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Asvid: None attested: None attested: Hávamál: Atla "The argumentative one" None attested
Storm surge inundation is the greatest danger people may experience during a hurricane. However, the stronger the hurricane winds or the faster a hurricane intensifies, the greater the potential ...
In Tim Severin's Viking series, Thorgils spends time amongst the Jomsvikings, although they are a smaller, older, and weaker force. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson retells an episode from the sagas, where a band of defeated Jomsvikings, about to be executed in Norway, are proud, undaunted and defiant to the end - winning their captors ...
ski, "one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow" [20] slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)" [21]
The word gale is derived from the Middle English gale, a general word for wind of any strength, even a breeze. This word is probably of North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (breeze) and Danish gal (furious, mad), [ 4 ] which are both from Old Norse gala (to sing), from Proto-Germanic * galaną (to roop, sing, charm), from Proto-Indo ...