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  2. L'Anse aux Meadows - Wikipedia

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    L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. ' Meadows Cove ') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.

  3. Fólkvangr - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (Old Norse "field of the host" [1] or "people-field" or "army-field" [2]) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, whilst the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.

  4. Vinland - Wikipedia

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    Old Norse vin (from Proto-Norse winju) has a meaning of "meadow, pasture". [14] This interpretation of Vinland as "pasture-land" rather than "wine-land" was accepted by Valter Jansson in his classic 1951 dissertation on the vin-names of Scandinavia, by way of which it entered popular knowledge in the later 20th century.

  5. List of Old Norse exonyms - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    From Old English hlȳp, Old Norse hleypa, both meaning "a leap". loch, lough C, SG, I lake, a sea inlet Loch Ryan, Lough Neagh, Sweethope Loughs, Glendalough, Loch Ness: Generally found in Scotland and Ireland, but also a handful in England. magna L great Appleby Magna, Chew Magna, Wigston Magna, Ludford Magna: Primarily a medieval affectation ...

  7. Thwaite (placename element) - Wikipedia

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    The name is usually from Old Norse thveit (also written þveit), but sometimes from Old Danish thwēt, both meaning "clearing" or "meadow". [ 1 ] The element is also found in Normandy .

  8. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.

  9. List of places named after Odin - Wikipedia

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    Odensvi, meaning "Odin's shrine", is one of numerous toponyms named after Odin. Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of Odin (Norse Óðinn , Old English Wōden , proto-Germanic Wōdanaz ).