Search results for "Icelandic language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Snorri Sturluson (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian ... whom he learned much of the traditions of Icelandic culture and literature. ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- case in the dispute on the origins of the Icelandic sagas. ... to achieve satisfaction. The laws of the Icelandic Commonwealth guarantee ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- language. In terms of etymology, the Icelandic language is the closest to Old ... proud of their Viking heritage and Icelandic language. Modern Icelandic remains ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- derived from the Old Norse hoggva or the Icelandic haggw, meaning 'to ... Slátur (meaning ("slaughter") is an Icelandic dish in which ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- Nordic ones: nyker in Old Norwegian, nykur in Icelandic, nok in Danish and finally, Neck in Swedish.Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Press, 1971) ISBN ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- of which the Scandinavian (particularly Icelandic) sub-groups are best preserved ... Describing the Sly God, the Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson (1178 ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic influence this was to flower ... Hákonarson and St. Olaf employed mostly Icelandic poets. ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- as o elsewhere, and behind o in Austria), Icelandic (ð follows d), Dutch ... does not define a particular single language or alphabet, the Unicode ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex ... a larger-than-life twelfth century Icelandic priest. While this attribution ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- is the origin for similar European words: Icelandic fjörður, Swedish fjärd ... As a loanword from Norwegian, it is the only word in the English language ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- illustration from a seventeenth century Icelandic manuscript, Heimdall is ... * Icelandic, Faroese: Ásgarður ==Notes== ==References== ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- album. Nick Cave has also written music for an Icelandic production of the play. ===Editions=== * Büchner, Georg. Werke und Briefe. Münchner ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- [[Image:Icelandic Jericho.jpg|right|thumb|300px||The walls of Jericho crumble as the priest blows his horn in this illustration from a fourteenth ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- conflict and prompted by Håkon's Icelandic clients, did the same. ... he established as his capital. Old Norse language was also now used for official ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- West Scandinavian branch (New Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese). rather than dialects of one common language is that they each are well ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- around 700 C.E., bringing the Old Norse language to the islands, which locally ... first based on a struggle for the Faroese language, and thus more culturally ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- which the Scandinavian (and particularly Icelandic) sub-groups are best preserved ... Forseti (Old Norse: "chairman"; Modern Icelandic and Faroese: ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- one word from another in a particular language. Phonemes that are established ... exactly what phonemes are and how a given language should be analyzed in phonemic ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- The word Viking was introduced to the English language with romantic ... Baltic sea were first mentioned in the Icelandic sagas as the Estonian vikings ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
