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Norse people explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. They also reached Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Anatolia. This category lists towns and settlements established or inhabited by Scandinavian or Scandinavian-descended settlers during the Viking Age (roughly, 750-1000 CE).
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( March 2016 ) Norse mythology includes a diverse array of people, places, creatures, and other mythical elements.
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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.
Odensvi – Odin's Sanctuary, [11] a place name appearing in Västmanland, Närke & Småland. Odinslund, [ 4 ] modern toponym Onsjö, [ 12 ] Odensjö & Odensjön – Odin Lake / The Odin Lake , several places in southern Sweden
The place names are probably symbolical, like other place names in the poem. [323] Signhildsberg: Old Norse: Sigtún: The derivation is contested but may be cognate with the Celtic toponym Segodunum, from PGmc *siga-tūna ("strong fortress"). [324] Founded by Odin according to the Prose Edda. [324]
Indirectly, the Vikings have also left a window open onto their language, culture and activities, through many Old Norse place names and words found in their former sphere of influence. Some of these place names and words are still in direct use today, almost unchanged, and shed light on where they settled and what specific places meant to them.
Old Norse place names were given during the Norse settlement at the end of the ninth century, expanding in the tenth century with the creation of the Duchy of Normandy by Rollo in 911. Since the speakers of Old Norse were linguistically assimilated into the Old French dialect society within a few generations, these settlement names were given ...