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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.
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 ...
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 479 BC Potidaea tsunami is the oldest record of a paleotsunami in human history. [1] The tsunami is believed to have been triggered by a M s 7.0 earthquake in the north Aegean Sea . The associated tsunami may have saved the colony of Potidaea from an invasion by Persians from the Achaemenid Empire .
'the one with the painted shield' Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (49), Óðins nǫfn (6) Bileygr Bileyg 'the one with poor sight' [9] Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (47), þulur, Óðins nǫfn (5) Blindi, Blindr 'the blind one' [10] Gylfaginning, Helgakviða Hundingsbana II (prose) Brúni, Brúnn 'the brown one' or possibly 'the one with bushy eyebrows ...
The most popular propositions are compounds formed with the word bylr ('storm'), either as byl-leystr ('storm-relieving'), byl-leiptr ('storm-flasher'), or byl-heistr ('violent storm'). [ 2 ] Various forms are attested in the manuscripts of the Prose Edda : 'Býleistr' ( Codices Regius and Wormianus ), 'Blýleistr' ( Codex Trajectinus ), or ...
[1] [2] After the 1953 Atlantic hurricane season, public reception to the idea seemed favorable, so the same list was adopted for the next year with one change: Gilda for Gail. [1] However, after storms like Carol and Hazel got a lot of publicity during the 1954 season, forecasters agreed to develop a new set of names for 1955. [1]
"The Stranger at the Door" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hávamál (English: / ˈ h ɔː v ə ˌ m ɔː l / HAW-və-mawl; Old Norse: Hávamál, [note 1] classical pron. [ˈhɒːwaˌmɒːl], Modern Icelandic pron. [ˈhauːvaˌmauːl̥], ‘Words of Hávi [the High One]’) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age.