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Definition of Old norse

1. Noun. The extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350.

Definition of Old norse

1. Proper noun. The language of Scandinavia before 1400 (C.E.), the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese(,) and Icelandic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Norse

Literary usage of Old norse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Dept. of Modern Languages, Harvard University (1903)
"The belief that Gray must have been a master of old norse appears to die hard. Mr. DC Tovey, editor of the Pitt Press edition of Gray's English Poems, ..."

2. Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of by John William Donaldson (1852)
"Moreover the Icelandic or old norse remains pure to the last, whereas the Etruscan is from the first alloyed by an interpenetration of Umbrian and Pelasgian ..."

3. The Home of the Eddic Poems: With Especial Reference to the Helgi-lays by Sophus Bugge (1899)
"of the Helgi-lays, it is important to discover, if possible, what earlier Old Norse poems their authors knew. I confine myself, however, for the time being, ..."

4. Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 by Howard Jason Rogers (1906)
"For it is especially in old norse and in Anglo-Saxon that we observe in final syllables the dropping of Gothic short vowels, the shortening of Gothic long ..."

5. The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia and the Origin of the by Vilhelm Thomsen (1877)
"Old Russian $tia£ (c™™), a banner, in modern dialects (Novgorod, Pskov) a pole, = Old Swedish stang, old norse stong* a pole, a banner (the Russian sound ta ..."

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