old norse in English

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the North Germanic (Scandinavian) language of medieval Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden up to the 14th century, from which the modern Scandinavian languages are derived.
There were also the vernaculars such as Irish, Old English, Old Norse , Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German, Hebrew, and the Slav languages, and in the east a host more such as Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, and Aramaic.

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1. Check 'Amnia' translations into Old Norse

2. Learn more about Old Norse Bynames here

3. Anaesthetize translation in English-Old Norse dictionary

4. Aeric is an alternate form of Eric (Old Norse)

5. From Old Norse Buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

6. From Middle English Bagge, borrowed from Old Norse Baggi (“Bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin

7. In Old Norse, the use of Bynames was quite common

8. Astride is an alternate form of Astrid (Old Norse): Scandinavian name

9. Balder's name is of Old Norse origin, meaning "prince"

10. In the context of English, Old Norse was a significant Adstratum to it, so significant that English borrowed a pronoun from Old Norse - the third person plural pronoun, they.

11. All from Proto-Germanic *Biton (source also of Old Saxon Biti, Old Norse Bit

12. History and Etymology for Carl Middle English, borrowed from Old Norse karl "man, commoner" — more at churl Note: Old Norse karl is already reflected in the late Old English compounds hūsCarl "member of a king's bodyguard" (Old Norse húskarl), Carlmann "male, …

13. The inherited form of alliterative verse was modified somewhat in Old Norse poetry.

14. Byrlaw is attested earlier in English but is unattested in Old Norse and the

15. Cognate with Old Norse bleza (“ to bless ”) (whence Icelandic Blessa), Old English blēdan (“ to bleed ”)

16. 1200, Bagge, probably from Old Norse Baggi "pack, bundle," or a similar Scandinavian source

17. Old Norse kura, Danish, Norwegian kure, Swedish kura).Thus unrelated to coward.Related: Cowered; cowering.

18. Middle English, from Old English eom; akin to Old Norse em Am, Latin sum, Greek eimi

19. Bren is an alternate form of Brenda (Old Norse): related to the English word "brand"

20. Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse?

21. English: habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse Buskr ‘bush’, ‘shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + býr ‘homestead’, ‘village’, or from some other place so called

22. Collop is an old Norse word of which a close modern relative is the Swedish kalops, a meat stew

23. 1 English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse Buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name

24. 1 English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse Buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name

25. Balder, Old Norse Baldr, in Norse mythology, the son of the chief god Odin and his wife Frigg

26. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse Buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name

27. Etymology 'Berrier' means 'hill shieling' - from Old English (OE) 'berg', 'hill', and Old Norse (ON)'erg' 'shieling', 'hill pasture'

28. Habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse Buskr "bush, shrub" or an Old Norse personal name Buski and býr "homestead, village", or from some other place so called.

29. The surname is derived from either the Old English word busc (bush) or the Old Norse word Buskr (bush)

30. Compare Old English betest, Betst, Old Frisian Betsta, Dutch best, Old High German bezzisto, Old Norse beztr, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (batists).

31. Baldur (pronounced “BALD-er;” Old Norse Baldr, Old English and Old High German Balder) is one of the Aesir gods

32. [Middle English bir, favorable wind, from Old Norse byrr; see bher- in Indo-European roots.] Birr 2 (bîr) n

33. [Middle English Basken, to bathe oneself (in warm liquid), wallow, perhaps from Old Norse badhask, to bathe oneself : badha, to bathe (akin

34. [From Middle English Blunderen, to go blindly, perhaps from Old Swedish blundra, have one's eyes closed, from Old Norse blunda.]

35. [Middle English bir, favorable wind, from Old Norse byrr; see bher- in Indo-European roots.] Birr 2 (bîr) n

36. The name of the hamlet derives from the Old Norse Saetr Buskr, which means "the bush by the shieling"

37. Borrowed from Old Norse Æsir, plural of áss "(pagan) god, member of the Aesir," going back to Germanic *ansu-

38. Bush itself is a thicket of Scandinavian (Old Norse Buskr), Germanic (Old High German busc), and Romanic (Medieval Latin busca) influences and cognates

39. Ivar the Boneless (Old Norse Ívarr hinn Beinlausi) is known from Old Norse and medieval Latin sources as the son of the legendary Viking king Ragnar Lothbrok, in these stories raiding alongside his father and brothers and becoming the ruler of York in England in the 9th century CE.

40. [Middle English Bawlen, to bark, from Medieval Latin baulāre, to bark (probably of Scandinavian origin) or from Old Norse baula, to low (of imitative origin).]

41. What does Aeric mean? A eric as a name for boys has its root in Old Norse, and the name Aeric means "complete ruler"

42. The Berserkers were Germanic in origin, were commonly reported in Old Norse literature and historians believe that either they entered a stage of rage before entering the

43. Blunt and blunder ("make a stupid mistake") may have the same origins — the Old Norse blundra, meaning "to shut one's eyes."

44. Boatswain (n.) mid-15c., from late Old English batswegen, from bat "boat" (see boat (n.)) + Old Norse sveinn "boy" (see swain).

45. [Old Norse Althing, parliament, whole assembly : allr, all; see al- in Indo-European roots + thing, assembly .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

46. Middle English: probably from obsolete Byrlaw ‘local law or custom’, from Old Norse býjar, genitive singular of býr ‘town’, but associated with by

47. What does Astride mean? A stride as a girls' name is of Old Norse origin, and the meaning of the name Astride is "beautiful goddess"

48. Everyday English vocabulary remained mostly Germanic, with Old Norse influence becoming Apparent. Once Wheeler's confession became Apparent, the other members of the gang fled their usual haunts

49. [Middle English Bawlen, to bark, from Medieval Latin baulāre, to bark (probably of Scandinavian origin) or from Old Norse baula, to low (of imitative origin).] bawl′er n

50. The speech of eastern and northern parts of England was subject to strong Old Norse influence due to Scandinavian rule and settlement beginning in the 9th century.