Search results for "Old Norse" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of Novgorod whose name translates from Old Norse as "the river-island ... and Smolensk regions became known in Old Norse sources as "Gardarike ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- until 1925). When she was only 11 years old, her father, the Norwegian ... of the Arthurian legends. She had studied Old Norse manuscripts and Medieval ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- Some authors recognize two subspecies, the Old World form Gulo gulo ... (e.g. Dutch Veelvraat). The name in Old Norse, Jarfr, lives on in the ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- the Genesis story found in the Torah and Old Testament involves a Serpent ... a liminal hero on the threshold between the old ways and the new Olympian ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- According to the Norse legends, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ... much debate. It is certainly derived from Old Norse, and was in all probability ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- quot;, in reference to its pointed head, Old English píc originally referring ... for the pike, ged, similarly derives from Old Norse gaddr (spike) (cf. the ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- the Icelandic language is the closest to Old Norse, the language of the Vikings ... Modern Icelandic remains close to the Old Norse spoken in the Viking Age. ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- " "Eroica," "Norse" and "Keltic," ... was responsible for assigning his "Two Old Songs" (1894) a misleading ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- The original meaning is reflected in the Old French cognate paisent ... quot;not Christian or Jewish," (c.f. Old Norse heiðinn). Historically ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- suffix; this is believed to be from the Old Norse ey and holmr, respectively. ... between the ninth and tenth centuries: the Norse suffix -ey for island can ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- An old Norse account of the northern lights is found in the Norwegian ... has been put forward as evidence that the Norse ventured as far as Antarctica ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- the Stone, meanwhile, is paralleled in the Norse Legend of Sigurd, who draws ... swords. The name Excalibur came from Old French Excalibor, which in ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- from medieval times…. [In ancient Norse tradition] sacrifice carried ... were previously associated with Freyr. In old Swedish art, Stephen is shown ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Therefore there are only a few texts in the Old Swedish from that period. ... == Old Norse == Runestone [[image:Rökstenen 2.jpg|thumb|right|The ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- meant "people of the Swedes" (Old Norse Svíþjóð, Latin Suetidi ... Act of Succession is a treaty between the old Riksdag of the Estates and ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- (Precambrian Era, over 540 million years old) is one the main factors for ... Island with the Helluland described in Norse sagas, so it is possible ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- that crows are kind birds that feed their old and weakened parents; this ... ravens Hugin and Munin, who accompany the Norse god Odin; the Celtic goddesses ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- or the auld Scots Parliament (Eng: old), met until the Acts of Union ... A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian: ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- (with new leaves constantly being grown and old ones shed), to only just over ... In the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible ("Tanakh"), trees ...33 KB (4,675 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- of Saint Nicholas of Myra, as well as on Norse myths associated with the ... and a red hat. This new version of the age-old folkloric creature was inspired ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
