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Sentence Examples The same is true of Pictish churches in the regions of northern Scotland and the Northern Isles settled by the Norse. By the 11th century Scots Gaelic was used throughout Scotland, except for the Hebrides and the Northern Isles which remained under Norse control. Athelstan achieved a decisive victory for Wessex at Brunanburgh in 937, when a coalition of Irish, Norse, Scots and Northumbrians were defeated. According to Norse mythology, the triskelion was a symbol of the movement of the sun through the heavens. The fantastic medieval building is the best in the north of Scotland and gives a great insight into the area's Norse past. The process was originally carried out in the cliff-top fishing village of Auchmithie, which was largely populated by families of Norse origin. There are similar accounts in Hindi myth, in the Norse sagas, and even among the Hopi Indians of Latin America. Based on that, perhaps Norse may have a transcendental element to it that may have been very lost due to the broken lineage. The Norse Eddas sing of the great ash tree Yggdrasil on whose trunk the heavens spin and whose roots clutch the netherworld. 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. Many of the events are legendary and bear similarities to other Germanic historical and mythological literature in Old English, Norse and German. 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. Borrowings from Gaelic, Norse, and Norman French have created a diverse patchwork of regional dialects. The 290,000 Icelanders still speak tenth-century Norse and revere literature. Thankfully these are not Norse raisers in their longboats, but the Royal Marines' new all-terrain vehicles, now being delivered to Corps units. 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. Show More Sentences 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. 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. The legendary ash tree of Scandinavia, Yggdrasil, forms the basis of Norse mythology. 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. In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on. The author of The Dictionary of Word origins has traced its roots to Latin, Old Norse and prehistoric Germanic words. There is evidence that the Norse used runes for divination before the 12 th or 13 th centuries, however. Its roots are in the heavens and its branches permeate the cosmos, paralleled in occidental mythology by the Norse Yggdrasill. A thorough review of the history of the medieval Norse in the North Atlantic follows this introduction. 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. Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism. This, plus Anglian settlements in the west and Norse colonization in Cumbria, gives the place-names of the region a striking cultural mix. The Norse would also find and cut down an evergreen and stand it up in the village. 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. Show More Sentences The Norse are scattered or have taken refuge in the mountain forests in the south of Hessen. 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. Old English and Old Norse were related and to some extent mutually intelligible. 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. I even read the Norse sagas and Icelandic literature and I love Celtic lore. The herbivore samples were obtained from Norse and Iron Age strata at a second coastal, machair site at nearby Bostadh. One of the best tax specialists I know, for example, took a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic before acquiring his taxation knowledge. He was killed in battle by Malcolm III Canmore, Duncan's son, in alliance with the Norse. The Old Norse examples are the most important and the most elaborate, especially in skaldic verse. He met what he supposed was a fleet of Norse trading ships and directed the sailors to the nearby royal estate. There are no fish bones in Norse archeological remains, Diamond concludes, for the simple reason that the Norse didn't eat fish. 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. Classic Norse myth is rife with stories concerning Loki's attempts to subvert Odin's authority, and Odin's retaliatory actions. Although the Vikings shared many customs, a common religion, and a language called Old Norse, they were not a unified nation. Their being Tocharians does put them right into the Indo-European matrix alongside the Greeks, Norse, and others. How about the Norse practice of dancing until going into a trance to be able to gain prophetic insights? The inscriptions are in runes and Old Norse, but the personal names and the grammatically-confused language suggest a thoroughly mixed community. 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. Show More Sentences At school he was introduced to Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian English, and also began to read the Norse Sagas. The Norse discoveries were couched in oral sagas and were dismissed as folklore by those in other cultures. 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. Norse woollies do not have to mean complicated geometric patterns. 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. I warned those near, Irish or Norse alike, to draw back and give us space. Diamond has investigated many different instances of cultural extinction, including the Mayans, Pitcairn Islanders, the Anasazi, Norse Greenlanders and the Vikings. In particular, the Danes, Norse and Saxons regularly tattooed themselves with family symbols and crests, and the early Britons used tattoos in ceremonies. It is from the North, and Norse mythology that demonology develops. According to Scandinavian historical sources, the Orkney islands were either deserted at the time of the earliest Norse settlement or their inhabitants were slaughtered. Its distinctive features come from Norse, Gaelic and French. 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. 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. 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. 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. He added that Norse has good relations with the FBI and has consulted with them on other crime cases. 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. 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. The resuscitation of Celtic and Norse religions, along with resurgent neopagan faiths like Wicca and Heathenism, are manifestations of this trend. Show More Sentences And then finally cultural factors, the Norse were derived from a Norwegian society that was identified with pastoralism, and particularly valued calves. The first sagas were the Norse sagas from Iceland and Scandinavia. These are rather crude divisions, further complicated from the late C8 onwards by raids and settlement involving Norse peoples from what is now Scandinavia. In particular, the Danes, Norse and Saxons, regularly tattooed themselves with family symbols and crests, and the early Britons used tattoos in ceremonies. 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, Valhalla represents the majestic palace where dead heroes consort with Valkyries and the Gods. A collection of wise sayings also makes up the remnants of Norse religion. The deforestation was especially expensive to the Norse Greenlanders because they required charcoal in order to smelt iron to extract iron from bogs. In fact Edward seemed to favour foreigners unless they were Norse. Did naming your car after a Norse, shape-shifting god help you avoid speed traps? Why did the Norse not turn back and find a way to warmer climes, but instead map the North Sea and the coastline? Is this what I studied Celt, Anglo-Saxon and Norse at Oxford for? From afar, the confab known as the World Economic Forum in Davos looked a little like Asgard, the mythical home of the Norse gods. English is essentially Norse as spoken by a gang of French thugs. Old East Norse, between 800 and 1100, is called Runic Swedish in Sweden and Runic Danish in Denmark. Norse was also widely spoken in the parts of England which fell under Danish law. Norse borrowings are relatively rare in Old English literature, being mostly terms relating to government and administration. 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. Show More Sentences It is unclear if the Norse leavened their breads, but their ovens and baking utensils suggest that they did. Old Norse did not exert any great influence on the Slavic languages in the Viking settlements of Eastern Europe. The Norse named some of the rapids on the Dnieper, but this can hardly be seen from the modern names. Runestones are important sources in the study of Norse society and early medieval Scandinavia, not only of the Viking segment of the population. The longship allowed the Norse to go Viking, which might explain why this type of ship has become almost synonymous with the concept of Vikings. According to custom, all free Norse men were required to own weapons and were permitted to carry them all the time. It is a narrative poem composed in alliterative verse and is modelled after the Old Norse poetry of the Elder Edda. Soapstone was traded with the Norse on Iceland and in Jutland, who used it for pottery. Norse Mythology, sagas, and literature tell of Scandinavian culture and religion through tales of heroic and mythological heroes. The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians to grapple with the primary Icelandic sagas. They promoted the use of Norse mythology as the subject of high art and other ethnological and moral aims. He specialized in English philology at university and in 1915 graduated with Old Norse as special subject. From the 8th to the 15th centuries, Vikings and Norse settlers and their descendents colonised parts of what is now modern Scotland. 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. 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. Show More Sentences 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. Most speakers spoke Old East Norse in what is present day Denmark and Sweden. 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. 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. 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. Show More Sentences 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. 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. 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. Norse raids continued throughout the 10th century, but resistance to them increased. The Norse established independent kingdoms in Dublin, Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Limerick. Show More Sentences 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. 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. 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. Norse journeys to Greenland and Canada are supported by historical and archaeological evidence. Few sources describing contact between indigenous peoples and Norse people exist. 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. Show More Sentences 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. 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 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. Show More Sentences 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. He is associated with charms and other forms of magic, particularly in Old English and Old Norse texts. Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea met with Thor, as with other Norse gods, in the very first of Shea's many fantasy adventures. 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. Norse cosmology revolved around a world tree known as Yggdrasil, with various realms existing alongside that of humans, named Midgard. 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. Grasmoor takes its name from the Old Norse element grise, meaning wild boar. However, there are also a number of common archaisms in West Germanic shared by neither Old Norse nor Gothic. 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. Norse religion had several fully developed ideas about death and the afterlife. 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. Show More Sentences 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 village gets part of its name from the Old Norse word thwaite which usually refers to a clearing or settlement in the forest. 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. This is where Rask's interest in Old Norse and Icelandic language and literature was awakened. Norse encounters with North American indigenous peoples seem to have filtered into Irish immrama. The first European contact with North America was that of the medieval Norse sailing from Greenland. Old Norse was inflected, but modern Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish have lost much of its inflection. Icelandic preserves almost all of the inflections of Old Norse and has added its own. This system continued largely intact in the first attested Germanic languages, notably Gothic, Old English, Old High German and Old Norse. That happened with many loanwords, such as skirt in this example, which was borrowed from Old Norse during the Danelaw. The language of the sagas is Old Icelandic, a western dialect of Old Norse. They set a standard for the orthography of the language, based on its Old Norse roots and similar to that of Icelandic. Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern Icelandic and Old Norse. 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. Show More Sentences 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. As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Old English and Old Norse. 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. The stone is so named as its silhouette resembles a church steeple, 'kirk' meaning church in old Norse. A Norwegian dialect word svirle meaning to swirl or whirl around, suggests that there may have been an Old Norse origin. 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. 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. Show More Sentences 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. 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. An exception might be made for the Northern Isles, however, where Pictish was more likely supplanted by Norse rather than by Gaelic. It remained the dominant language of Ireland for most of those periods, having influences from Latin, Old Norse, French and English. As previous and contemporary peoples of Scandinavia, the tribal Danes were practitioners of the Norse religion. Old East Norse and Old English were still somewhat mutually comprehensible. It is a Norse word, although the site may be older still, perhaps even from the Bronze Age. But he remained a resented outsider, and the northern British kingdoms preferred to ally with the pagan Norse of Dublin. In 934 Olaf Guthfrithson succeeded his father Guthfrith as the Norse King of Dublin. The alliance between the Norse and the Scots was cemented by the marriage of Olaf to Constantine's daughter. Icelanders and the Faroese are to a significant extent descended from the Norse, and are therefore often seen as Scandinavian. As in other Scandinavian countries, the ancient Norse followed a form of native Germanic paganism known as Norse paganism. As in the Old Norse usages, the term is not employed as a name for any people or culture in general. Show More Sentences The Vikings were often depicted with winged helmets and in other clothing taken from Classical antiquity, especially in depictions of Norse gods. Near the end of the Old English period the English language underwent a third foreign influence, namely the Scandinavian influence of Old Norse. Everyday English vocabulary remained mostly Germanic, with Old Norse influence becoming apparent. Heathens commonly adopt a cosmology based on that found in Norse mythology. There are different forms of the NNV, with the number nine having symbolic associations in Norse mythology. Norse cultural values view masculinity as an ideal of beauty, which the Alfr personifies. In the Norse Eddas, the radiant beauty of Baldr is the light of the daylight itself. Notable is the association of both Old Norse Alfr and Sanskrit Rbhu with the solar corona and sun rays. Reconstructing the early concept of an elf depends almost entirely on texts in Old English or relating to Norse mythology. Scholars of Old Norse mythology now focus on references to elves in Old Norse poetry, particularly the Elder Edda. The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones. It has a variety of cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Norse dvergr and Old High German twerg. It is also known that, in Norse paganism, cosmological views held that the universe was a world tree, known as Yggdrasil. This would have been a burial fitting a king who was famous for his wealth in Old Norse sources. From boyhood, Lewis had immersed himself in Norse and Greek mythology, and later in Irish mythology and literature. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse and Celtic descent. Norse Greenlanders submitted to Norwegian rule in the 13th century under the Norwegian Empire. Apart from some runic inscriptions, no contemporary records or historiography survives from the Norse settlements. From the beginning of the ninth century, Norse raiders appeared on the coasts. The culture of the Isle of Man is often promoted as being influenced by its Celtic, and to a lesser extent its Norse, origins. Find more words! 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