Search results for "Old Norse language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Primary Chronicle (Old-Slavonic: Пов ѣ сть времяньныхъ ... and George Hamartolus, native legends and Norse sagas, several Greek religious ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- In the Germanic languages, the root word led to Old English gos with ... * Crystal, D. 1998. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 04:17, 24 May 2024
- ideas. The mighty oak, which grows to an old age of hundreds of years, ... many years to enjoy first. In Britain, one old tradition has it that if a ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 17:31, 16 February 2023
- origin ("Turold," a variant of Old Norse "Thorvaldr"). ... later, southern aesthetic into the story. A Norse version of the Song of Roland ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- leave significant traces in the English language; many fundamental words ... each lost control of Northumbria to fresh Norse attacks before regaining ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- legends and as Þjóðrekr and Þiðrekr in Norse mythology. During his reign ... Theodoric the Great lived at a time when the old order in Western and central ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- can be expanded to include the areas where Old Norse was spoken and where ... 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 ... first based on a struggle for the Faroese language, and thus more culturally ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- The Isle of Man was controlled by Norse, Scottish, and English lords ... of 2036 feet (621 meters). According to an old saying, from the summit one ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- the fifth century and sixth centuries C.E. Old Norse parallels of the legend ... Full many a wonder is told us in stories old, of heroes worthy of praise ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 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 word Viking was introduced to the English language with romantic ... The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- Some authors recognize two subspecies, the Old World form Gulo gulo ... a false etymology. The animal's name in old Swedish, Fjellfräs, meaning ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- taken up by Malory in his famous English-language version. Here, Arthur receives ... the Stone, meanwhile, is paralleled in the Norse Legend of Sigurd, who draws ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 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
- -hou 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
- settlers from Scandinavia and also from Norse colonies in the British Isles ... two countries had long been closely allied; Norse mythology and even the language ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- "our land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the ... (Precambrian Era, over 540 million years old) is one the main factors for ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- 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
- Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language ... Therefore there are only a few texts in the Old Swedish from that period. ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
