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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. Straumsey ("Current-isle") lies at the mouth of Straumfjörð. Suðreyjar "Southern islands". Hebrides. Suðrvegr "South way", Germany. [3 ...
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 ...
In May 1997, the Texas Legislature officially designated Clifton as the Norwegian Capital of Texas. Clifton and the surrounding area was settled by Norwegian immigrants in the mid-19th century. The nearby community of Norse is the final resting place of Cleng Peerson , commonly recognized as the "Father of Norwegian Immigration to America."
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 precise, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century.
Call sign Frequency City of License [1] [2] Licensee Format [3]; KAAM: 770 AM: Garland: DJRD Broadcasting, LLC: Christian talk/Brokered KABA: 90.3 FM: Louise: Aleluya Broadcasting Network
KRNH (92.3 FM, "The Ranch") is a radio station licensed to Kerrville, Texas. The station broadcasts a country music format and is owned by Lyndell Grubbs, through licensee Radio Ranch, LLC. [ 3 ]
The waves of Norse (Viking) colonisation of northern parts of the British Isles in the 8th and 9th centuries put Old English into intense contact with Old Norse, a North Germanic language. Norse influence was strongest in the north-eastern varieties of Old English spoken in the Danelaw area around York, which was the centre of Norse ...
The word barr has been the cause of some confusion since it is most often applied to the needles of fir or pine trees. Richard Cleasby and Guðbrandur Vigfússon surmised that Snorri had used the word wrongly due to Icelandic unfamiliarity with trees. [15] Others have drawn the conclusion that the World Tree was in fact a conifer.