NORSE

another name for the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). The modern Norse languages—Danish, Faeroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish—all stem from an earlier form of Norse known as Old Norse. Now extinct, Old Norse was the language spoken by the Germanic tribes living in Scandinavia before a.d. 1000. It was first written in runes, some examples of which go back to the 3d cent. a.d., but later the Roman alphabet was used. The earliest extant Old Norse manuscripts in the Roman alphabet are from the 12th cent. Old Norse is also noteworthy as the language of the Eddas and sagas (see Old Norse literature; Icelandic literature).

See E. V. Garden, An Introduction to Old Norse (2d ed. 1957).

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The American Discovery of the Norse: An Episode in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Book by Erik Ingvar Thurin; Bucknell University Press, 1999
Subjects: American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Scandinavian Influences, Literature, Comparative--American And Scandinavian, Literature, Comparative--Scandinavian And American, Mythology, Norse, In Literature, Old Norse Literature--Appreciation--United States, Scandinavia--In Literature, Vikings In Literature
1 Introduction THE ICELANDIC-NORSE BACKGROUND The American discovery of the Norse is an avatar-in some respects the final avatar-of an array of Norse revivals. The term revival has been used to denote related cultural movements in several...
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Old Norse Images of Women
Book by Jenny Jochens; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
Subjects: Goddesses, Mythology, Norse, Old Norse Literature--History And Criticism, Women In Literature, Women--Mythology, Women--Scandinavia--History
...fixation of a literary corpus render the East Norse materials sufficiently different from the West Norse to deserve a study of their own. They have...partial translation of the Bible into Old Norse, but this opinion may have to be revised...
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Heroic Sagas and Ballads
Book by Stephen A. Mitchell; Cornell University Press, 1991
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, In Literature, Old Norse Literature--History And Criticism, Oral Tradition--History And Criticism, Sagas--History And Criticism
...linguistic division of northern Europe into an East Norse zone Denmark and Sweden and a West Norse zone Norway, the Faroes, and Iceland . 15 Not...of the ballad folkevise, kvaeethi . The East Norse area is typified by the courtly chivalric ballads...
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The Origins of Beowulf: From Vergil to Wiglaf
Book by Richard North; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, In Literature, East Anglia (England)--In Literature, Epic Poetry, English (Old)--History And Criticism, Kings And Rulers In Literature, Mercia (Kingdom)--In Literature, Mythology, Norse, In Literature, Wiglaf (Legendary Character)
side, and stanzas on the Norse.ls? Roberta Frank has written widely...poetic relationships. 157 A corpus of Norse poems produced in England has since been...existed at West Saxon, Mercian, or Norse courts in England during the Viking Age...
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Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, 1000-1632
Book by Tryggvi J. Oleson; McClelland and Stewart, 1963
Subjects: America--Discovery And Exploration--Norse, Canada--History--To 1763 (New France), Eskimos--Canada
...artificial eider duck shelters, he writes: The Norse are husbandmen, only secondarily hunters...Eskimos own no birds and protect none; the Norse own barnyard fowl and protect the eider...the skins of dead birds for clothes; the Norse use the down of live birds for quilts...
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Clive Tolley. Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic
Journal article by Thomas A. Dubois; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 81, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic, 2 vols. (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Clive Tolley. Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic. by Thomas A. DuBois Clive Tolley. Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic. 2 Vols. FF Communications...Tolleys study focuses particularly on Old Norse references to seior, relating these to descriptions...
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The Giantess as Foster-Mother in Old Norse Literature
Journal article by Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 78, 2006
Subjects: Norse mythology--Analysis, Scandinavian literature--Criticism and interpretation
The Giantess as Foster-Mother in Old Norse Literature. by Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo IN...the case of trolls. In fact, the Old Norse name troll may be referred to magical creatures...to consider in her study is that the Old Norse literature also contains a small number...
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Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
Journal article by Steven P. Sondrup; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 79, 2007
Subjects: A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. by Steven P. Sondrup Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. Cambridge: D.S...tradition on to future generations. Old Norse, happily, belongs to that group of poetic...
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John McKinnell. Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
Journal article by Merrill Kaplan; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 78, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend (Book)--Book reviews
...John McKinnell. Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend. by Merrill Kaplan John McKinnell. Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend. Cambridge: D.S...theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend," and so it is, but...
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Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop, and Tarrin Wills, Eds. Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross
Journal article by Steven P. Sondrup; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 82, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross (Essay collection)--Book reviews
...Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies...Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies...Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding Old Norse Literature" presents five essays that...
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The Last Vikings: the Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers
Magazine article; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 97, Autumn 2010
...Last Vikings: the Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers By Kirsten A. Seaver LB. Taurus...search for coherence in the 500 years of Norse Greenland society, the author sees a...
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Norse Code: Lapped in Larch, This Terrace Will Gradually Grow into Harmony with the Surrounding Forest
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 214, November 2003
Subjects: Apartments, Apartments--Design and construction, Norway--Domestic policy
Norse Code: Lapped in Larch, This Terrace Will Gradually Grow into Harmony with the Surrounding Forest. Norway has a programme for...
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The Drowned World: Elaborate Stagecraft Is Superfluous in a Piece as Spare and Grim as a Norse Epic
Magazine article by Ian Irvine; New Statesman, Vol. 137, December 8, 2008
Subjects: Operas--Opera reviews, Riders to the Sea (Opera)--Opera reviews
...Stagecraft Is Superfluous in a Piece as Spare and Grim as a Norse Epic. by Ian Irvine Riders to the Sea Coliseum, London WC2...this stagecraft, but that the work, as spare and grim as a Norse epic, does not require such elaborate decoration. The cast...
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Unpeaceful Symbol: A Look at the History of the So-Called Peace Symbol Reveals That It Originated in Ancient Pagan Rituals, and That Its Use Has Been Primarily as a Token Not of Peace, but of Evil
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 19, May 5, 2003
Subjects: Norse mythology, Peace movements--Analysis, Peace movements--History, Roman history, 509-30 BC (Republic), Runes, Signs and symbols--History, Signs and symbols--Religious aspects, Symbolism--Analysis, Symbolism--Religious aspects
...on the runes, the ancient signs of the Norse world. He discovered that: in past ages...family system it means man dies." For the Norse and Teutonic pagans, though, runes were...deity of the northern pantheon. In the Norse poem Havamal, the High Song of Odin...
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The Vikings and the Eskimos
Magazine article by Samuel M. Wilson; Natural History, February 1992
Subjects: Exploration, History, Indigenous people, Scandinavia
...manners. The Groenlendinga Saga, one of the Norse heroic narratives, begins by telling how...should he discover that land retold from The Norse Atlantic Saga, translated by Gwen Jones...later, a prosperous and widely traveled Norse captain named Bjarni Herjolfsson sailed...
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Norse Merchant Ferry Bonus for Twelve Quays; High Level of Demand for Space
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 24, 2004
Norse Merchant Ferry Bonus for Twelve Quays; High...pounds 25m Twelve Quays terminal. Next year, Norse Merchant plans to increase its capacity from...a yard in Italy, are to be chartered by Norse Merchant. Group managing director, Derek...
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Fitzgerald's World: Norse Giant Takes on Elegant Lady of Man
Newspaper article by Charles Fitzgerald; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), December 2, 1997
Fitzgeralds World: Norse Giant Takes on Elegant Lady of Man. by...With both the new Belfast-Liverpool Norse-Irish superferries fast finding huge...my prediction of a while back that Norse Irish might expand and introduce a new...
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RACING: Norse Dancer in Line for Big Test; VICTORY SETS UP TILT AT INTERNATIONAL STAKES
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 13, 2004
RACING: Norse Dancer in Line for Big Test; VICTORY SETS UP TILT AT INTERNATIONAL STAKES. NORSE DANCER booked his ticket for the Juddmonte International...in both last seasons 2000 Guineas and Derby, Norse Dancer has been called some unkind names, encouraging...
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FERRY FIRM TAKEOVER; Norse Merchant Group to Change Hands
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 30, 2005
FERRY FIRM TAKEOVER; Norse Merchant Group to Change Hands. Byline...HODGSON LIVERPOOL-based Irish ferry group Norse Merchant Ferries is about to be bought...Group, has announced a deal to buy all Norse Merchants shares. The deal, for an undisclosed...
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COR, THOR; the Norse God May Be Ripped but the Script Should Have Been Ripped Up -- and Director Kenneth Branagh Should Have Stuck to Playing Grumpy Kurt Wallander
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 28, 2011
COR, THOR; the Norse God May Be Ripped but the Script Should...favour. Thor tries hard to bring ancient Norse mythology (as revised by Marvel comics...thunderous CGI battles, with the help of the Norse gods, who then retired hurt to "the realm...
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encyclopedia articles on: Norse  - 100 results

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Norse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NORSE another name for the North Germanic, or...languages (see Germanic languages ). The modern Norse languages Danish, Faeroese, Icelandic...Swedish all stem from an earlier form of Norse known as Old Norse. Now extinct, Old Norse...
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Old Norse Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OLD NORSE LITERATURE the literature of the Northmen...Brunhild ; the mythological lays, focusing on Norse gods, include "The Lay of Thrym," a narrative...of foreign romances . The bulk of medieval Norse literature, and the most readable today...
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Norse Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NORSE LITERATURE see Old Norse literature . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Saga , in Old Norse Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAGA , in Old Norse Literature in Old Norse literature , especially Icelandic and Norwegian, narrative in prose or verse, centering on a legendary or historical figure or family. Sagas may be divided into sagas of the kings, mainly of early...
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Norse Religion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NORSE RELIGION see Germanic religion . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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