How To Use Old norse In A Sentence

  • Jealousy was not the passion to loosen the tongue of the sagaman, and in so far as that is the theme of "King Erik," the play is not Old Norse in origin. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
  • And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
  • Update: Paul sez, "Old Norse and Old English poetry (written down in the 13th and 8th-11th centuries respectively, but often of earlier oral origins) know the tradition of" flyting, "insulting speech esp. before battle. Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives
  • “Steak,” for example is good Old Norse steik, as in steikja, which meant to roast on a spit. Archaeology, Names, and Words
  • Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse?
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old Hakluyt tells: but we shall remember what Mr. Tennyson says: how The Water Babies
  • A collection of Old Norse poems, called the Elder or Poetic Edda, assembled in the early 3th century.
  • Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse?
  • I also thought that our hero would inject a little modern/alien thinking into Old Norse and let the heroine, who, in point of fact, saved her people, become the queen, but no, he totally accepts the badge of kingliness and rules happily ever after, I guess. Day in the Life of an Idiot
  • The region is packed with hundreds of bodies of water, relics of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, but most are deemed too small to be called lakes, and are referred to locally in the old Norse word, tarns.
  • Like the English hail (as in “Hail to the Chief”), the German interjection comes from the Old Norse word for whole Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
  • Some nouns contain the Old Norse suffixed definite article (i)nn: croopan trunk of the body, fyandin the devil, knorin boat, and the Shetland sea-terms birten fire, hestin horse, monen moon, and sulin sun.
  • It may, however, be traced with little doubt to the old Norse 'grein,' a branch or prong, surviving in the word Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.
  • Berserk refers to an Old Norse word used to describe the Viking warriors.
  • The word Varangian comes from the old Norse "var" who means vow and "gengi" which means companion or sword fellow. Unusual Historicals

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy