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"Land of the **Walhaz". Land of the Celtic-and Romance-speaking peoples. Vendland "Land of the Wends". Slavic areas East from Lübeck. Vernisa Worms, Germany. vestmenn "Westmen", the Gaels of Ireland and Britain. Vikinglow, Wykynlo Wicklow Vindau Ventspils in Latvia. Named after the Venta River. Vineta A mythical city in the Baltic of disputed ...
perhaps from Old French bruschet, with identical sense of the English word, or from Old Norse brjosk "gristle, cartilage" (related to brjost "breast") or Danish bryske [37] brunt Likely from Old Norse brundr (="sexual heat") or bruna =("to advance like wildfire") [38] bulk bulki [39] bull boli [40] bump Perhaps from Scandinavian, probably ...
Para Rivers (North Para, South Para, and Little Para), South Australia (from Kaurna parri, "river") Paraguay River , Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina (the Great River River – Guaraní ) Fiume Potamo , a tributary of Mesima (it) in Calabria , Italy – "Potamos" is a Greek word for "river" (see Mesopotamia – "the land between the rivers")
The City of Clifton was officially designated a Cultural District by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the State of Texas on Saturday, October 22, 2011. Clifton is home to the Bosque Arts Center. Housed in a restored three-story building that was the former Main Hall of Clifton College, the organization offers a local outlet for visual and ...
Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). [1] In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people , the proto- Inuit group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century.
The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid- to late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century.
For example, the Old English name Scipeton ("sheep farm"), which would normally become *Shipton in modern English, instead was altered to Skipton, since Old English sc (pronounced 'sh') was usually cognate with Old Norse sk — thus obscuring the meaning, since the Old Norse word for 'sheep' was entirely different. Lost reason. Interpreting ...
Place names in Scandinavian Scotland such as Burgawater and Burgan show that Old Norse borg is the older word used for these structures in the north. Brochs are often referred to as dùn in the west. Antiquarians began to use the spelling broch in the 1870s. A precise definition for the word has proved elusive.