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Old Norse   /oʊld nɔrs/   Listen
Old Norse

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





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"Old Norse" Quotes from Famous Books



... slaughter and desolation." There remain to this day some traces of the worship paid to Odin in the name given by almost all the people of the north to the fourth day of the week, which was formerly consecrated to him. It is called by a name which signifies "Odin's day;" "Old Norse, Odinsdagr; Swedish and Danish, Onsdag; Anglo-Saxon, Wodenesdaeg, Wodnesdaeg; Dutch, Woensdag; English, Wednesday. As Odin or Wodun was supposed to correspond to the Mercury of the Greeks and Romans, the name of this day was ...
— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus


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