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Many historians assume the terms beorm and bjarm to derive from the Uralic word perm, which refers to "travelling merchants" and represents the Old Permic culture. [4] Bjarneyjar "Bear islands". Possibly Disko Island off Greenland. [5] blakumen or blökumenn Romanians or Cumans. Blokumannaland may be the lands south of the Lower Danube. Bót
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 ...
Milwaukee County – Algonquin word Millioke which means "The Good Land", or "Gathering place by the water". Another interpretation is "beautiful or pleasant lands". Another interpretation is "beautiful or pleasant lands".
Storm Lake (Wisconsin), a lake in Waupaca County, Wisconsin This page was last edited on 28 October 2023, at 02:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Potawatomi (/ ˌ p ɒ t ə ˈ w ɒ t ə m i /, also spelled Pottawatomie; in Potawatomi Bodwéwadmimwen, Bodwéwadmi Zheshmowen, or Neshnabémwen) is a Central Algonquian language.It was historically spoken by the Pottawatomi people who lived around the Great Lakes in what are now Michigan and Wisconsin in the United States, and in southern Ontario in Canada.
The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively).
The word may be related to the Old Norse word skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [2] William Thalbitzer (1932: 14) speculated that skræling might have been derived from the Old Norse verb skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell". [3]
Although the idea of Norse voyages to, and a colony in, North America was discussed by Swiss scholar Paul Henri Mallet in his book Northern Antiquities (English translation 1770), [39] the sagas first gained widespread attention in 1837 when the Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn revived the idea of a Viking presence in North America. [40]