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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
- image effect was well known as a property of Icelandic feldspar, a crystalline mineral, but Fresnel showed the same property could be exhibited by ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- which the Scandinavian (and particularly Icelandic) sub-groups are best preserved ... or veneration. His name, in the Old Norse language, connotes rage or frenzy ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- deposits of 160,000 UK customers with the Icelandic bank Kaupthing Edge, which ... 1992. ISBN 9052610789 (Dutch language). *Evans, Richard. 1999. "Dutch ...15 KB (2,077 words) - 16:53, 10 February 2024
- North Atlantic oscillation, the other being the Icelandic Low. The system influences the weather and climatic patterns of vast areas of North Africa ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- work of literature written in that language. At over 3,000 lines, the ... as an early form of the English language. In the poem, Beowulf, a ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- quot; It may also be from the Assiniboine language for "Lake of the Prairie ... is also home to the largest community of Icelandic origins. Large numbers ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- The old Icelandic annals report that the Black Death came to Bergen ... , music (Edvard Grieg), and even language policy, where attempts to ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Islands have been a center of English language-learning for South Americans. ... RAF air link is operated by Air Atlanta Icelandic, using 747s. Flights are ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Orange. The chansons were also recorded in the Icelandic saga, Karlamagnús. Indeed, until the nineteenth century, the tales of Roland and Charlemagne ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- home. The most familiar version is that by an Icelandic or Norwegian author writing in Norway in the thirteenth century, who compiled a consecutive ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- among the other Germanic languages except the Icelandic is|bjalla which was a loanword from Old English. title=Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- by its proponents to be a symbolic language, a form of art, a form of ... ===Astrology as a Descriptive Language for the Mind=== Different astrological ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English ... with a first-class degree in English language in 1915, Tolkien joined ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- The official language is German. Most speak Alemannic, a dialect of ... one of the most dramatic losses of the Icelandic national soccer team. ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- popularity of these chapbooks inspired Icelandic novelists Gunnar Leifsson ... of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. Lacy (1991), 106-08. ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- which the Scandinavian (and particularly Icelandic) sub-groups are best preserved ... In Avestan, an ancient Indo-European language found in the Gathas ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Icelandic ... speak Danish as their first, or only, language. English is widely spoken ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- be necessary to adopt new modes of dress, language and custom. ... in English, Dutch, Russian, Bulgarian and Icelandic while other European languages ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Wilson The swastika shape appears in Icelandic grimoires wherein it is ... The discovery of the Indo-European language group in the 1790s led ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- Middle English poetry, and even an Icelandic prose saga. J.A. Dane, ... *Robb, Kevin, ed. Language and Thought in Early Greek Philosophy. ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- later than the other Edda, the language and poetic forms involved ... Trying to avert civil war, the Icelandic parliament voted in Christianity ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- Hund, Dutch hond, common Scandinavian hund, Icelandic hundur, which, though referring to a specific breed in English, means "dog" in general ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN) ; (also called the North Atlantic Alliance ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- of additional factors. For example, language plays a role in that all ... The semantic theory of truth has as its general case for a given language: ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- elements. Wagner's chromatic musical language prefigured later developments ... Norse mythology. Wagner drew largely from Icelandic epics, namely, The Poetic ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- readings. This distortion was recognized by Icelandic mariners as early as the late eighteenth century. More important, because the presence of magnetite ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
