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Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic [1] or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate ...
Imagemap with clickable links. Tolkien's Sigelwara etymologies, [1] leading to major strands of his Legendarium, the Silmarils, Balrogs, and Haradrim [2] "Sigelwara Land" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien that appeared in two parts, in 1932 and 1934. [1]
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character ...
An illuminated page from a 14th century Icelandic copy of Stjórn I. The capital letter marks the beginning of Genesis 25:20. [1]Stjórn (Icelandic: [stjou(r)tn̥]) is the name given to a collection of Old Norse translations of Old Testament historical material dating from the 14th century, which together cover Jewish history from Genesis through to II Kings.
The Old English "Exodus" Text, translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Joan Turville-Petre. Clarendon Press, Oxford (1981) Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben The unmanly man: concepts of sexual defamation in early northern society Trans. by Joan Turville-Petre. Odense: Odense University Press (1983)
As noted in the Landnámabók (Icelandic Book of Settlements), Herjolf Bardsson was one of the founding chieftains of the Norse colony in Greenland, and was said to be "a man of considerable stature." [1] He was part of an exodus from Iceland accompanying Erik the Red, who led an expedition of colonists in 25 ships in AD 985. Landing on ...
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.
During the Norse period, Vatnahverfi was initially settled by kinsmen of Erik the Red who accompanied him in a large exodus out of Iceland in 985 AD. The Greenlander's Saga states that “men who went abroad with Eirik took possession of land in Greenland” and includes in a list of founding chieftains a man named Hafgrim who claimed “Hafgrímsfjörð and Vatnahverfi.”