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Sentence Examples The process was originally carried out in the cliff-top fishing village of Auchmithie, which was largely populated by families of Norse origin. Thankfully these are not Norse raisers in their longboats, but the Royal Marines' new all-terrain vehicles, now being delivered to Corps units. Although the Vikings shared many customs, a common religion, and a language called Old Norse, they were not a unified nation. Borrowings from Gaelic, Norse, and Norman French have created a diverse patchwork of regional dialects. The fantastic medieval building is the best in the north of Scotland and gives a great insight into the area's Norse past. Athelstan achieved a decisive victory for Wessex at Brunanburgh in 937, when a coalition of Irish, Norse, Scots and Northumbrians were defeated. The Norse would also find and cut down an evergreen and stand it up in the village. The maritime supremacy of the Norse, however, was destroyed and surpassed by the cities that belonged to the Hanseatic League. But in 937 the English army under Athelstan defeated a combined force of Norse, Scots, and Strathclyde Welsh. And William the conqueror may have spoken French but his immediate ancestry was Norse. His cross is the same as the cross of Wotan which Norse invaders of Scotland carried. The Greek, Roman, and Egyptian pantheons can be easier to mix than, say, Egyptian and Norse. The Inuit, likely from past experience with Norse seamen and Basque fishermen, would not initially assume hostile intent and came to trade. At the same time, we were a mongrel nation, pillaged and settled in turn by a variety of cultures, from Norse and Celtic to Anglo-Saxon. A thorough review of the history of the medieval Norse in the North Atlantic follows this introduction. Permission was denied to film on St. Kilda, which is in the Hebrides, and where they actually speak Gaelic, while on Foula they speak Norse. The Norse discoveries were couched in oral sagas and were dismissed as folklore by those in other cultures. Lee traced the elements of the Ring cycle that Wagner took, not from Norse and German myth, but from the works of Aeschylus. He named the property Asgaard, the name given to the home of the ancient Norse gods. The patrons who commissioned these memorials, and the dead whom they commemorated, bore both Norse and Celtic names. Show More Sentences From what I've always been told these names come from Norse, Greek, and Egyptian mythology. Angles had formed the nucleus of the kingdom of Deira, and some Norse immigration had occurred in the west from Lancashire and Westmorland. The Norse are scattered or have taken refuge in the mountain forests in the south of Hessen. Many of the events are legendary and bear similarities to other Germanic historical and mythological literature in Old English, Norse and German. The legendary ash tree of Scandinavia, Yggdrasil, forms the basis of Norse mythology. In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on. By the 11th century Scots Gaelic was used throughout Scotland, except for the Hebrides and the Northern Isles which remained under Norse control. It got to be a big problem when the Inuit, who had initially been absent in Greenland, colonised Greenland and came into conflict with the Norse. He was killed in battle by Malcolm III Canmore, Duncan's son, in alliance with the Norse. Their being Tocharians does put them right into the Indo-European matrix alongside the Greeks, Norse, and others. One of the best tax specialists I know, for example, took a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic before acquiring his taxation knowledge. I used to read a lot of Norse mythology when I was a lad, and I always was into their vision of the endtimes of the gods, Ragnarok. Classic Norse myth is rife with stories concerning Loki's attempts to subvert Odin's authority, and Odin's retaliatory actions. Its legend in Norse myth shows how Odin won it for the Gods and tells that it was brewed from the blood of Kvasir, the poet. There are no fish bones in Norse archeological remains, Diamond concludes, for the simple reason that the Norse didn't eat fish. The language spoken by the invaders is known as Old Norse, and was similar to Old English in many ways, being also a Germanic language. Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism. Based on that, perhaps Norse may have a transcendental element to it that may have been very lost due to the broken lineage. He met what he supposed was a fleet of Norse trading ships and directed the sailors to the nearby royal estate. The Norse Eddas sing of the great ash tree Yggdrasil on whose trunk the heavens spin and whose roots clutch the netherworld. Show More Sentences There are similar accounts in Hindi myth, in the Norse sagas, and even among the Hopi Indians of Latin America. The Old Norse examples are the most important and the most elaborate, especially in skaldic verse. The early Norse settlers built their farmhouse close to the ruins of the old broch, which doubtless served as a handy source of good stone. The same is true of Pictish churches in the regions of northern Scotland and the Northern Isles settled by the Norse. There is evidence that the Norse used runes for divination before the 12 th or 13 th centuries, however. This, plus Anglian settlements in the west and Norse colonization in Cumbria, gives the place-names of the region a striking cultural mix. According to Norse mythology, the triskelion was a symbol of the movement of the sun through the heavens. The inscriptions are in runes and Old Norse, but the personal names and the grammatically-confused language suggest a thoroughly mixed community. How about the Norse practice of dancing until going into a trance to be able to gain prophetic insights? The jotuns lived outside Midgard, in Jotunheimen, and were often in conflict with the Norse gods, the Aesir. He quickly learns Greek and reads Homer before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse and Inuit, along with advanced mathematics. Since the Vikings came from different parts of Scandinavia they all used their own dialect of Old Norse although the basic language was the same. At school he was introduced to Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian English, and also began to read the Norse Sagas. From the late 8th century on, the Vikings forced entry, occupied the land, and introduced Old Norse words into Old English. The vast majority of the words used in Yorkshire dialect today are derived from Old Norse and Old English. The 290,000 Icelanders still speak tenth-century Norse and revere literature. Old English and Old Norse were related and to some extent mutually intelligible. The author of The Dictionary of Word origins has traced its roots to Latin, Old Norse and prehistoric Germanic words. The Vikings spoke Old Norse, tackled Old English as adults, and never learned it completely. Attanasio mixes Arthurian lore with Norse gods, modern physics and sundry faerie creatures in this literary, passionate novel. Show More Sentences I even read the Norse sagas and Icelandic literature and I love Celtic lore. Its roots are in the heavens and its branches permeate the cosmos, paralleled in occidental mythology by the Norse Yggdrasill. The herbivore samples were obtained from Norse and Iron Age strata at a second coastal, machair site at nearby Bostadh. A collection of wise sayings also makes up the remnants of Norse religion. Is this what I studied Celt, Anglo-Saxon and Norse at Oxford for? He added that Norse has good relations with the FBI and has consulted with them on other crime cases. Australian Felix Noblis takes his audience back to the dark ages for his translation of the 8th century heroic poem which charts the battles of Beowulf, a Norse warrior. A maiden race winner at Windsor in June, Pinkerton has run well in both his starts since then, being a good second to Norse Dancer on his latest outing, at Ascot. In Norse mythology, Loki is a shape-shifting god who enjoys the occasional turn as a woman. For example, the god known to early Germanic tribes as Wodhanaz became Odhinn in Old Norse, Woden in Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon, and Wuotan in Old High German. From afar, the confab known as the World Economic Forum in Davos looked a little like Asgard, the mythical home of the Norse gods. Its distinctive features come from Norse, Gaelic and French. In particular, the Danes, Norse and Saxons, regularly tattooed themselves with family symbols and crests, and the early Britons used tattoos in ceremonies. In particular, the Danes, Norse and Saxons regularly tattooed themselves with family symbols and crests, and the early Britons used tattoos in ceremonies. English is essentially Norse as spoken by a gang of French thugs. Why did the Norse not turn back and find a way to warmer climes, but instead map the North Sea and the coastline? I warned those near, Irish or Norse alike, to draw back and give us space. Did naming your car after a Norse, shape-shifting god help you avoid speed traps? The Island's Norse settlement was predated by the Celts, evidence for which comes in the form of archaeological remains of roundhouses and hill forts. Diamond has investigated many different instances of cultural extinction, including the Mayans, Pitcairn Islanders, the Anasazi, Norse Greenlanders and the Vikings. Show More Sentences It is from the North, and Norse mythology that demonology develops. In Norse mythology, Valhalla represents the majestic palace where dead heroes consort with Valkyries and the Gods. The declaration, in Latin, Old English, Old Norse and modern English, is read to the West Riding, North Riding, City of York and East Riding in turn. Norwegian literature begins with the Sagas and Eddas of the medieval Vikings, written in the language of Old Norse and found mainly in Icelandic texts. The first sagas were the Norse sagas from Iceland and Scandinavia. The deforestation was especially expensive to the Norse Greenlanders because they required charcoal in order to smelt iron to extract iron from bogs. And then finally cultural factors, the Norse were derived from a Norwegian society that was identified with pastoralism, and particularly valued calves. In fact Edward seemed to favour foreigners unless they were Norse. According to Scandinavian historical sources, the Orkney islands were either deserted at the time of the earliest Norse settlement or their inhabitants were slaughtered. The resuscitation of Celtic and Norse religions, along with resurgent neopagan faiths like Wicca and Heathenism, are manifestations of this trend. These are rather crude divisions, further complicated from the late C8 onwards by raids and settlement involving Norse peoples from what is now Scandinavia. Due to my brief foray into the lore of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic worlds, I was aware of the nature of a wicker man before I saw this film. His initial poems lean heavily on outmoded styles and subjects, such as Norse personification, sailors of Devon, or the bird as a correlative for soaring aspiration. From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, ghyll, tarn, and how. Old Norse was inflected, but modern Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish have lost much of its inflection. The village gets part of its name from the Old Norse word thwaite which usually refers to a clearing or settlement in the forest. Grasmoor takes its name from the Old Norse element grise, meaning wild boar. A Norwegian dialect word svirle meaning to swirl or whirl around, suggests that there may have been an Old Norse origin. Few sources describing contact between indigenous peoples and Norse people exist. Icelandic preserves almost all of the inflections of Old Norse and has added its own. Show More Sentences That happened with many loanwords, such as skirt in this example, which was borrowed from Old Norse during the Danelaw. They set a standard for the orthography of the language, based on its Old Norse roots and similar to that of Icelandic. The Old Norse language also filtered in on a few occasions after the foundation of the Danelaw. Old English, German and Norse poems were written in alliterative verse, usually without rhyme. Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea met with Thor, as with other Norse gods, in the very first of Shea's many fantasy adventures. In older printed editions of Old English works, an acute accent mark was used to maintain cohesion between Old English and Old Norse printing. Many northern dialects reflect the influence of the Old Norse language strongly, compared with other varieties of English spoken in England. The Eastern English Midlands were incorporated in the Norse controlled Danelaw in the late 9th century by Ivar the Boneless. In the far north, Viking incursions brought Old Norse speakers into Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. The name Pool How was derived from the Old English word pollr plus the Old Norse haugr meaning hill or mound. The lake may have been named Ulf's Water in honour of either of these, or it may be named after the Norse god Ullr. How is believed to derive from the Old Norse word haugr meaning hill or mound. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound. His study of Norse and Anglican archaeology made him widely recognised as a leading authority. Place names such as clough, fell and moss suggest they were named by Norse settlers. The name Wharfe derives from the Old English weorf or the Old Norse hverfr meaning winding river. The new religion, which replaced the old Norse religious practices, had many advantages for the king. Oldham is however known to be a derivative of Aldehulme, undoubtedly an Old Norse name. The name is derived from Oddrgrimir meaning the son of Grimm and is linked to the Old Norse word melr meaning sandbank. In addition to being god of thunder, Thor is also the god of war and strongest of the Aesir, the principal race of the Norse gods. Show More Sentences By the end of the 11th century, when Norway had been Christianised, the indigenous Norse religion and practices were prohibited. The word Varangian may have originated in Old Norse, but in Slavic and Greek it could refer either to Scandinavians or Franks. It is unclear if the Norse leavened their breads, but their ovens and baking utensils suggest that they did. Female descent studies show evidence of Norse descent in areas closest to Scandinavia, such as the Shetland and Orkney islands. This was similar to the percentage of Norse inheritance found among males in the Orkney Islands. It is also argued that Norse immigrants to England had a great impact on the loss of inflectional endings in Middle English. The earliest from 937 is called The Battle of Brunanburh, which celebrates the victory of King Athelstan over the Scots and Norse. The music of the Isle of Man reflects Celtic, Norse and other influences, including from its neighbours, Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales. The name Reynolds is an Anglicization of the Gaelic Mac Raghnaill, itself originating from the Norse names Randal or Reginald. The Norn language formerly spoken in the islands, a descendant of the Old Norse of the Vikings, became extinct in the 18th or 19th century. This dialect of Old West Norse was spoken by Icelandic colonies in Greenland. Old East Norse, between 800 and 1100, is called Runic Swedish in Sweden and Runic Danish in Denmark. Until the early 12th century, Old East Norse was very much a uniform dialect. Place names in Northumberland have their roots mostly in old English, Norse, French, Scandinavian and middle English. The Treaty of Perth transferred the Outer Hebrides and Isle of Man to Scots law while Norse law and rule still applied for Shetland and Orkney. He did not do so, but celebrated her beauty in Old Norse stanzas, as too did his followers, the skaldic poets Armod and Oddi the Little. Place names such as Skokholm, Skomer, and Swansea remain as evidence of the Norse settlement. While harsh, the land allowed for a pastoral farming life familiar to the Norse. In Norway and Iceland, the usage is closest to the Old Norse, with fjord used for both a firth and for a long, narrow inlet. Before or in the early phase of Old Norse angr was another common noun for fjords and other inlets of the ocean. Show More Sentences Interestingly, accent 1 generally occurs in words that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, and accent 2 in words that were polysyllabic. The Dorset had withdrawn from Greenland before the Norse settlement of the island. The ninth victim escaped and soon came back to the Norse camp with a force. Although brief hostilities ensued, the Norse explorers stayed another winter and left the following spring. He published several books on the topic and had plaques, monuments, and statues erected in honor of the Norse. For centuries it remained unclear whether the Icelandic stories represented real voyages by the Norse to North America. However, there are also a number of common archaisms in West Germanic shared by neither Old Norse nor Gothic. The name of the Gutes in Old West Norse is Gotar, which is same as that used for the Goths. According to the same account, the Irish monks abandoned the country when the Norse arrived, or had left prior to their arrival. This archaeological find may also indicate that the monks left Iceland before the Norse arrived. The settlers of Iceland were predominantly pagans and worshiped the Norse gods, among them Odin, Thor, Freyr and Freyja. Some of those contain allusions to Norse mythology and even short poems in alliterative verse. In the Viking era beginning circa 793, the Norse raiders often captured and enslaved militarily weaker peoples they encountered. However, many of the settlers were not from Scandinavia, but descendants of Norse settlers in the Irish Sea region. Old Norman contained several Old Norse loanwords unknown in other Old French dialects at that time. Many of the present day place names in the Newlands valley have their origins from these early Norse settlers. The dialect has roots in older languages such as Old English and Old Norse. Skaldic poetry forms one of two main groupings of Old Norse poetry, the other being the anonymous Eddic poetry. Most speakers spoke Old East Norse in what is present day Denmark and Sweden. Old Gutnish, the more obscure dialectal branch, is sometimes included in the Old East Norse dialect due to geographical associations. Show More Sentences In some instances the term Old Norse refers specifically to Old West Norse. The Old East Norse dialect was spoken in Denmark, Sweden, settlements in Kievan Rus', eastern England, and Danish settlements in Normandy. In the 11th century, Old Norse was the most widely spoken European language, ranging from Vinland in the West to the Volga River in the East. Old Norse also had an influence on English dialects and Lowland Scots, which contain many Old Norse loanwords. Written modern Icelandic derives from the Old Norse phonemic writing system. Nasal and oral vowels probably merged around the 11th century in most of Old East Norse. The standardized Old Norse spelling was created in the 19th century, and is for the most part phonemic. Old Norse was a moderately inflected language with high levels of nominal and verbal inflection. This definite article, however, was a separate word, and did not become attached to the noun before later stages of the Old Norse period. The oldest preserved texts in Old Norse in the Latin alphabet date from the middle of the 12th century. Subsequently, Old Norse became the vehicle of a large and varied body of vernacular literature, unique in medieval Europe. Most of the innovations that appeared in Old Norse spread evenly through the Old Norse area. However, some changes were geographically limited and so created a dialectal difference between Old West Norse and Old East Norse. Another difference was that Old West Norse lost certain combinations of consonants. In addition, numerous common, everyday Old Norse words were adopted into the Old English language during the Viking age. Numerous bands of Norse settlers landed in the county, and gradually established themselves around the coast. In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is a red squirrel who runs up and down with messages in the world tree, Yggdrasil, and spreads gossip. It also heralded the introduction of new noble titles from continental Europe, which were to replace the old Norse titles. The aim was to discourage the Norse Earls of Orkney from expanding beyond Caithness. According to a legend, an invading Norse army was attempting to sneak up at night upon a Scottish army's encampment. Show More Sentences The Norse left as suddenly and as mysteriously as they had arrived, however leaving the Norman army weakened and demoralized. Cadwaladr fled to Ireland and hired a Norse fleet from Dublin, bringing the fleet to Abermenai to compel Owain to reinstate him. Foreign loanwords are primarily Norse and English, with a smaller number coming from French. Names given by Norse settlers, such as Swansea, Fishguard and Anglesey, tended to be adopted in English usage but not by the Welsh. English names for the Great Orme and Worm's Head both derive from the Norse word orm, referring to their shape resembling a serpent's head. The Norse remained in control until 1169 AD when Wexford was attacked by a superior force of Norman and Irish soldiers. Some evidence of neolithic inhabitants has been found in the island's sand dunes, though its name is likely of Norse origin. However, other Norse etymologies have also been suggested for the source of the island's name. The boundary of the Norse colony is believed to have passed south of Neston and Raby, and along Dibbinsdale. The Norse crafted ornamented plates from baleen, sometimes interpreted as ironing boards. Whaling has also been practiced in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic since about the time of the first Norse settlements on the islands. By far the largest part of the modern vocabulary of Norwegian dates back to Old Norse. Many of these kings are only mentioned in various saga and blend with Norse mythology. New dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled more Victorians to read the Icelandic Sagas. Literature, crafts, and decorative styles in Ireland and Britain reflected West Norse culture. The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the Norse were not able to mount a further attack that year. Old Norse was spoken in one district of Novgorod, however, until the 13th century. The term skerry is derived from the Old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea. According to the Norse sagas, Oslo was founded around 1049 by Harald Hardrada. Stromness is of relatively recent origin, being first recorded as the site of an inn in the 16th century, although the name is of Norse origin. Show More Sentences Yell's placenames reveal the presence of the Celtic Church, whose hermits were known to the Norse as papar. The primary Viking legacy is an abundance of placenames of Old Norse origin. Tolkien to derive from a Germanic language, and it has been attributed largely to either the Dutch language or Old Norse. Whales played a major part in shaping the art forms of many coastal civilizations, such as the Norse, with some dating to the Stone Age. Through Danish conquest, Old East Norse was once widely spoken in the northeast counties of England. At the same time, the beginning of the Viking Age led to the spread of Old Norse to Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. In all of these places except Iceland and the Faroes, Old Norse speakers went extinct or were absorbed into the local population. A fundamental idea for Aasen was that the fundamental dialect should be Modern Norwegian, not Old Norwegian or Old Norse. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. The dialects of Old East Norse that were spoken in Sweden are called Runic Swedish while the dialects of Denmark are referred to as Runic Danish. While longships were used by the Norse in warfare, they were mostly used as troop transports, not warships. The Norse had a strong sense of naval architecture, and during the early medieval period they were advanced for their time. These carvings allegedly protected the ship and crew, and warded off the terrible sea monsters of Norse mythology. In common with elsewhere in the Orkney islands, place names are generally a mixture of Norse, Scots and English influences. It is also sometimes suggested that Rollo may be a Latinised version of another Norse name, Hrollaugr. However, Ketill was a common name in Norse societies, as were names like Gurim and Grim. The Norse are first recorded in Ireland in 795 when they sacked Lambay Island. The Norse established independent kingdoms in Dublin, Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Limerick. Even today, many surnames particularly connected with Gaeldom are of Old Norse origin, especially in the Hebrides and Isle of Man. In Norse mythology, there are two swans that drink from the sacred Well of Urd in the realm of Asgard, home of the gods. Show More Sentences The ash exudes a sugary substance that, it has been suggested, was fermented to create the Norse Mead of Inspiration. In interpretations of Norse cosmology, the tree Yggdrasill has traditionally been interpreted as a giant ash tree. Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism, from which Norse paganism developed. As the Norse domination of the west coast of Scotland advanced, Iona became part of the Kingdom of the Isles. The first known European settlement in the Americas was by the Norse explorer Leif Ericson. Over the next centuries, people of Norse and Celtic origin settled in Iceland. While there is archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous peoples on the island, it was abandoned when the Norse arrived from Scandinavia. The Dorset died off or abandoned the island prior to the arrival of the Norse. There is no evidence that the Beothuk inhabited the island prior to Norse settlement. Newfoundland is the site of the only authenticated Norse settlement in North America. Before and after the departure of the Norse, the island was inhabited by aboriginal populations. The two children were then taken to Greenland, where they were baptized and taught to speak Norse. After the disappearance of the Norse colonies in Greenland, the Inuit had no contact with Europeans for at least a century. Holy Roman Emperor Otto II had assembled a great army of Saxons, Franks, Frisians and Wends to fight against the Norse pagan Danes. Meanwhile, the Norse colony in Greenland died out, probably under extreme weather conditions in the 15th century. He was never popular with the Northumbrian ruling class, a mix of Danish invaders and Anglo Saxon survivors of the last Norse invasion. Originating from the ancient Norse and Saxon languages, the dialect was prevalent across the Blackmore Vale but has fallen into disuse. It seems to have taken effect earliest and most completely Old English and Old Norse. The name of the Suebi also appears in Norse mythology and in early Scandinavian sources. Today, Swedish scholars identify this as a cultural movement called Gothicismus, which included an enthusiasm for things Old Norse. Show More Sentences The syntax of Gothic is similar to that of other old Germanic languages such as Old English and Old Norse. There are a few linguistically significant areas in which Gothic and Old Norse agree against the West Germanic languages. The Old East Norse dialect was spoken in Denmark, Sweden, settlements in Russia, England, and Danish settlements in Normandy. The two branches are derived from the western and eastern dialect groups of Old Norse respectively. Due to this ambiguous position, it is contested whether Jamtlandic belongs to the West Norse or the East Norse group. Old Norse sources such as the sagas do not distinguish between the Goths and the Gutes. In accordance, the Old East Norse term for both Goths and Gutes seems to have been Gutar. Note that not all the Norse arriving in Ireland and Great Britain came as raiders. In 966 Lisbon was again raided by the Norse, this time with a fleet of 28 ships. In any case, without any official backing, attempts at colonization by the Norse proved failures. The region's population at that time was composed of Baltic, Slavic, Finnic, Turkic, Hungarian, and Norse peoples. There is no evidence of a Norse presence in Kiev prior to the 10th century. As with the Norse influence in Normandy and the British Isles, Varangian culture did not survive in the East. Icelandic has inflectional grammar comparable to Latin, Ancient Greek, more closely to Old English and practically identical to Old Norse. Generally, he claims to have filtered out the Norse influence and derived common elements between the South, North, and Eastern Sami groups. Finnish paganism combined various layers of Finnic, Norse, Germanic and Baltic paganism. The native languages are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, all North Germanic languages rooted in Old Norse. Thynghowe is an Old Norse name, although the site may be older than the Danelaw, perhaps even Bronze Age. Valhalla is mentioned in euhemerized form and as an element of remaining Norse pagan belief in Heimskringla. In Norse mythology, the world ash tree Yggdrasil is tended by the three Norns while the dragon Nidhogg gnaws at its roots. Show More Sentences He is associated with charms and other forms of magic, particularly in Old English and Old Norse texts. At this time, enough knowledge of Norse mythology remained to be preserved in sources such as the Eddas in Iceland. Numerous Old Norse works dated to the 13th century record Norse mythology, a component of North Germanic religion. Old Norse religion was polytheistic, entailing a belief in various gods and goddesses. During the Viking Age, the Norse likely regarded themselves as a more or less unified entity through their shared Germanic language, Old Norse. Economic, marital, and religious exchange occurred between the Norse and many of these other groups. During the Viking Age, Norse people left Scandinavia and settled elsewhere throughout Northwestern Europe. Scandinavian settlers brought Old Norse religion to Britain in the latter decades of the ninth century. Old Norse mythological stories survived in oral culture for at least two centuries, to be recorded in the 13th century. Norse mythology, stories of the Norse deities, is preserved in Eddic poetry and in Snorri Sturluson's guide for skalds, the Poetic Edda. In Snorri's Gylfaginning, it is again stated that the Old Norse cosmogony began with a belief in Ginnungagap, the void. However, written sources are vague about Norse rituals, and many are invisible to us now even with the assistance of archaeology. Burial of the dead is the Norse rite of passage about which we have most archaeological evidence. Charms, often associated with the runes, were a central part of the treatment of disease in both humans and livestock in Old Norse society. Several of the sagas refer to cult houses or temples, generally called in Old Norse by the term hof. Interest in Norse mythology was revived in the eighteenth century, and scholars turned their attention to it in the early nineteenth century. The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology. Along with the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most expansive source on Norse mythology. The poems in the second part narrate legends about Norse heroes and heroines, such as Sigurd, Brynhildr and Gunnar. The word Viking was taken to refer to romanticized, heroic, idealized Norse seafarers and warriors. Show More Sentences This is where Rask's interest in Old Norse and Icelandic language and literature was awakened. The first European contact with North America was that of the medieval Norse sailing from Greenland. Middle English steke might derive from Old Norse steik, but Scandinavian wines are out of the question. The Thunderstruck Mobile Video Slot Game is an easy to play 5 reel, 9 payline Norse themed coin slot machine. Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom Friday is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen. The word comes from an old Norse or Anglo-Saxon word meaning place of hiding or covering. God promised to purge this earth of evil, Norse God Odin pledged to purge this earth of Ice Giants. His strong skin was of the Norse snow-fed pallor that no sun ever tanned, no adolescence ever blotched. Prior to 1611, there were several regional law systems in Scotland, most notably Udal law in Orkney and Shetland, based on old Norse law. The Norse settlement of the Faroe Islands and Iceland began during the 9th and 10th centuries. A version of the Norse language was spoken there from the Viking invasions until replaced by Scots in the 18th and 19th centuries. Collingwood the author, artist and antiquarian lived nearby, and wrote Thorstein of the Mere, set in the Norse period. During Norse times the Pennines were settled by Viking Danes in the east and Norwegian Vikings in the west. Elements like fell, thwaite and tarn, which are particularly common in Cumbria, are all Norse. Certainly in Middle English texts, which are more often based on eastern dialects, a strong Norse influence becomes apparent. The change to Old English from Old Norse was substantive, pervasive, and of a democratic character. Later, the Norse fought for control of the Baltic against Wendish tribes dwelling on the southern shore. The Norse also used the rivers of Russia for trade routes, finding their way eventually to the Black Sea and southern Russia. After the Norse settled in what is now Yorkshire, Northumbria was effectively cut in two. How much Norse influence spread to the English north of the River Tees is uncertain. Find more words! 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