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    Greenlandic Norse is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Norse settlements of Greenland until their demise in the late 15th century...
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    their own language that is referred to as Greenlandic Norse, not to be confused with Eskimo-Aleut Greenlandic language.[page needed] Their settlements...
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  • 1300 AD Old West Norse, the western dialect of Old Norse, spoken in Norway and areas under Norwegian influence Greenlandic Norse Norn language, an extinct...
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  • Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) Inuktun (North Greenlandic) Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Historically, anything relating to the Norse communities in southwestern...
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    Scandinavian dialect of Proto-Germanic that developed into Old Norse Greenlandic Norse History of Danish History of Icelandic Old Gutnish Old Norwegian...
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    The Greenlandic Inuit (Greenlandic: kalaallit, Danish: Grønlandsk Inuit) are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. Most speak Greenlandic...
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    Hvalsey Church (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey (now modern-day...
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    nevertheless been home to several languages. Greenlandic Norse is believed to have been in language contact with Greenlandic, the language of the indigenous Kalaallit...
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    Greenlandic independence (Danish: Grønlandsk uafhængighed, Greenlandic: Namminersulivinneq) is a political ambition of some political parties (such as...
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    intelligible and the most separated ones not. Old Norse West Scandinavian Faroese Greenlandic Norse (extinct) Icelandic Norn (extinct) Norwegian Nordnorsk [no]...
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    The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...
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    Saga Age. They were written in Old Icelandic, a western dialect of Old Norse. They are the best-known specimens of Icelandic literature. They are focused...
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  • Saga (redirect from Norse Saga)
    in medieval Europe was Latin, sagas were composed in the vernacular: Old Norse and its later descendants, primarily Icelandic. While sagas are written...
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  • number of different phonemes in the spoken language, when Proto-Norse evolved into Old Norse. Also, the writing custom avoided carving the same rune consecutively...
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    Skræling (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America...
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    Greenland (category Articles containing Greenlandic-language text)
    Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American autonomous territory...
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  • The orthography of the Old Norse language was diverse, being written in both Runic and Latin alphabets, with many spelling conventions, variant letterforms...
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  • Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in the Old Norse language, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end...
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  • other symbols. Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation...
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  • Edda (category Old Norse literature)
    "Edda" (/ˈɛdə/; Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been applied by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic...
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  • Faroese language (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages; the others include Norwegian, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn and Greenlandic Norse. Faroese and Icelandic...
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    museum. Narsarsuaq is located within the Eastern Settlement of the Greenlandic Norse; the Brattahlíð farm of Erik the Red established in 985 was located...
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    century. In 1978, experts from London considered that it might have been of Norse origin. Today the identity of the Maine Penny as an Olaf Kyrre silver coin...
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    Vinland (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Vinland, Vineland, or Winland (Old Norse: Vínland hit góða, lit. 'Vinland the Good') was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Eriksson...
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  • Icelandic † Middle Icelandic † Modern Icelandic Greenlandic Norse † East Scandinavian Old East Norse † Old Danish † Middle Danish † Modern Danish Bornholmsk...
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    Thorfinn Karlsefni (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    exact location of Thorfinn's colony is unknown, though it may have been the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. The relatively few women...
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    portion of the Labrador peninsula. The area was known as Markland in Greenlandic Norse, and its inhabitants were known as the Skræling. Nitassinan: The Innu...
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    Ruin Island (category Greenlandic Inuit people)
    known as the Ruin Island phase of Thule Culture. Items traded by the Greenlandic Norse travelled as far as Ruin Island. The earliest known inhabitants of...
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    Prose Edda (category Old Norse literature)
    Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often...
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    50–80% of their diet from the sea. In the Greenlandic Inuit oral tradition, there is a legend about why the Norse population of Hvalsey died out and why...
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