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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.
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.
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a burning, tingling or scalding sensation in the mouth, lasting for at least four to six months, with no underlying known dental or medical cause. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] No related signs of disease are found in the mouth. [ 3 ]
There are hundreds of such words, and the list below does not aim at completeness. To be distinguished from loan words which date back to the Old English period are modern Old Norse loans originating in the context of Old Norse philology, such as kenning (1871), [a] and loans from modern Icelandic (such as geyser, 1781).
See the separate page List of names of Odin for more Odin kennings. N: Odin: Hanged god Odin hung on the Tree of Knowledge for nine days in order to gain wisdom. N: person voice-bearer reordberend: OE: Dream of the Rood: poetry Grímnir's lip-streams Grímnir is one of the names of Odin. N: Þórsdrápa: raven swan of blood Ravens ate the dead ...
A disease lasting for a few hours, where the affected person can only say "Good day, good day" despite attempts to say other words. Sune gets the disease [4] [5] but is later cured by his schoolteacher Ulla-Lena Frid, who cures it with "ordinary simple curiosity" (Swedish: "vanlig enkel nyfikenhet"). Gray death
Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Sækarlsmúli "Seaman's mouth" or "Seaman's nose" None attested: None attested: Nafnaþulur: Salfangr "Bargain grasper" or "Hall robber" None attested: None attested: Nafnaþulur: Sámendill "Familiar foe" None attested: None attested: Nafnaþulur: Saurkver: Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Sidhauttur ...
Old Norse: Brandey: The word brandr may refer to "a stock in the front of a ship" and appears in the heroic poem Helgakvíða Hundingsbana I, it has been suggested to correspond to the island Brännholmen in Östergötland. [33] A location where the hero has assembled his fleet. [32] Brávellir, Bråviken: Old Norse: Brávellir, Old Norse: Brávík