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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
'the found one' (according to Rudolf Simek, it is unclear if this refers to Odin) [26] Óláfsrímur Tryggvasonar A III (1) Gagnráðr, Gangráðr Gagnrad, Gangrad 'the one who advises against' [27] Vafþrúðnismál (8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17) Gangleri [28] 'the one tired from walking'? [29] Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (46), Óðins nǫfn (3 ...
ski, "one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow" [20] slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)" [21]
An illustration from a 17th-century Icelandic manuscript shows a hawk, Veðrfölnir, on top of an eagle on top of a tree, Yggdrasil. In Norse mythology, Veðrfölnir (Old Norse "storm pale", [1] "wind bleached", [2] or "wind-witherer" [3]) is a hawk sitting between the eyes of an unnamed eagle that is perched on top of the world tree Yggdrasil.
10th-century picture stone from the Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a gýgr riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin. A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; [1] or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.