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a descriptive phrase used in Germanic poetry, a modern learned word from Old Norse kenning in a special sense. [152] kick Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse kikn (="bend backwards, sink at the knees") [153] kid kið (="young goat") [154] kidnap From kid + a variant of nab, both of which are of Scandinavian origin. [155] kilt
Odin the Wanderer (the meaning of his name Gangleri); illustration by Georg von Rosen, 1886 Odin ( Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology . The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar , particularly in the Old Norse record.
James is the second most common first name for living individuals in the United States, belonging to roughly 3.4 million people in the United States as of 2021, according to the Social Security Administration. [6] In 2022, in the United States, the name James was given to 12,028 boys, ranking it as the fourth most popular name. [7]
From skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell" [29] or from skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [29] The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland.
Some scholars have translated the name of the rune in the Old English rune poem as ōs ("god"), with the word commonly accepted as being a cognate of áss, however others interpret it as meaning "mouth" that would have come to Old English from Proto-Germanic or result from influence from either Old Norse: óss ("river mouth") or Latin: os ...
Runestone raised in memory of Gunnarr by Tóki the Viking. [17] The etymology of the word Viking has been much debated by academics, with many origin theories being proposed. [18] [19] One theory suggests that the word's origin is from the Old English wicing 'settlement' and the Old Frisian wizing, attested almost 300 years prior. [20]
"Rig in Great-grandfather's Cottage" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Rígsþula or Rígsmál (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Ríg') [1] is an Eddic poem, preserved in the manuscript (AM 242 fol, the Codex Wormianus), in which a Norse god named Ríg or Rígr, described as "old and wise, mighty and strong", fathers the social classes of mankind.
The etymology of the name Sága is generally held to be connected to the Old Norse verb sjá, meaning "to see" (from Proto-Germanic *sehwan). This may mean that Sága is to be understood as a seeress. Since Frigg is referred to as a seeress in the poem Lokasenna, this etymology has led to theories connecting Sága to Frigg.