Sentence examples for Norse from inspiring English sources

First, there is now archaeological evidence of at least one Norse settlement in Newfoundland.

Two of the sections Skáldskaparmál ("The Language of Poetry"), dealing with the elaborate, riddle-like kennings and circumlocutions of the skalds, and Háttatal ("A Catalog of Metres"), giving examples of 102 metres known to Snorri are of interest chiefly to specialists in ancient Norse and Germanic literature.

"We translate lines into Old Norse and Old English, use pre-Conquest missals for religious scenes and reconstruct locations and events from contemporary chronicles – inasmuch as that's possible in the nineth century," he says.

There's Skomer in Pembrokeshire, for example, Bempton in East Yorkshire and Lundy Island (whose name is thought to derive from the old Norse for puffin).

I have no idea now where I got all this, except for the Norse myths, which came from a turn-of-the-century book, Asgard and the Gods, bought by my mother as a crib for her ancient Norse and Icelandic exams at Cambridge.

After finding a story big enough to contain a billionaire playboy inventor, a defrosted second world war super-soldier, a Norse god and a scientist with anger-management issues, what's the next challenge for the "Marvel Cinematic Universe"?

And all of them are spending more money to teach it to immigrants as a means of integration.Iceland puts up the most spirited defence of its language, which is closest to the Old Norse once spoken across northern Europe.

The three elements that constitute the architectural legacy of Dublin Norse, Norman, and Georgian all meet in Dublin Castle.

The English word acid, the French acide, the German Säure, and the Russian kislota are all derived from words meaning sour (Latin acidus, German sauer, Old Norse sūur, and Russian kisly).

He was given the Old Norse name of Haakon.

June 17 , 1811Iceland December 7, 1879 Copenhagen, Denmark Jón Sigurdsson, (born June 17 , 1811 western Iceland died Dec. 7, 1879, Copenhagen, Den)., Icelandic scholar and statesman who collected and edited many Old Norse sagas and documents.