• 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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  • 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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    dialects: Old West Norse or Old West Nordic (often referred to as Old Norse), Old East Norse or Old East Nordic, and Old Gutnish. Old West Norse and Old East...
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    Jötunheimr (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr [ˈjɔtonˌhɛimz̠]; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple...
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    Náströnd (category Pages with Old Norse IPA)
    oath-breaking. In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name was spelled Nástrǫnd, which in 11th century Old West Norse was pronounced [ˈnɑːˌstrɔnd]....
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  • Sjöfn (category Pages with Old Norse IPA)
    In Norse mythology, Sjöfn (or Sjǫfn [ˈsjɔvn] in Old Norse orthography) is a goddess associated with love. Sjöfn is attested in the Prose Edda, written...
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    from the Old West Norse and Old East Norse dialects that it is considered to be a separate branch. While vastly divergent from Old Gutnish and closer...
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    Sinfjötli (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    and fjǫtli. The latter is cognate with the Old English Fitela. In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name is spelled Sinfjǫtli, but the letter...
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  • Útgarðar (category Locations in Norse mythology)
    In Norse mythology, Útgarðar (literally: "Outyards", the plural of Útgarðr. The word can, according to Old Norse orthography be anglicized as Utgard,...
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  • Níðhöggr (category Pages with Old Norse IPA)
    guilty of murder, adultery, and oath-breaking. In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name is spelled Níðhǫggr, but the letter ǫ is frequently replaced...
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  • Midgard (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    cosmology, Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse Miðgarðr; Old English Middangeard, Old Saxon Middilgard, Old High German Mittilagart, and Gothic Midjun-gards;...
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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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    runestones Jötunvillur Kudurru Kurgan stelae List of runestones Old Norse orthography Ovansjö Runestones Petroglyphs Picture stone Piraeus Lion Stele...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter...
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    Elfdalian (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    "cheese" (Old Norse: kæsir, from Latin: caseus). Before nasal consonants. This case of nasalisation is allophonic and is not indicated in the orthography. Nasal...
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  • can represent both the Old Norse letter ð (as in English the) or þ (as in English thing). List of runestones Old Norse orthography Runology Antonsen, Elmer...
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    The Icelandic orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet including some letters duplicated with acute accents; in addition, it includes the letter eth (⟨ð⟩...
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  • Faroese language (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    owing to Faroese's etymological orthography. Around 900 AD, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old Norse, which Norse settlers had brought with them...
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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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    History of Danish (redirect from Old Danish)
    during the Middle Ages out of Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish. It was a late form of common Old Norse. The Danish philologist Johannes...
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  • 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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    Icelandic sagas using modern Icelandic rather than the normalized Old Norse orthography, which had become customary. Laxness and his publishing partners...
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  • Old Norse has three categories of verbs (strong, weak, & present-preterite) and two categories of nouns (strong, weak). Conjugation and declension are...
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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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    that Old English may have been replaced entirely by Norse, by virtue of the change from the Old English syntax to Norse syntax. The effect of Old Norse on...
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  • Scottish Gaelic orthography has evolved over many centuries and is heavily etymologizing in its modern form. This means the orthography tends to preserve...
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    Höðr (redirect from Hod (Norse mythology))
    Höðr (Old Norse: Hǫðr [ˈhɔðz̠] , Latin Hotherus; often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) is a god in Norse mythology. The blind son of Odin and Frigg...
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  • F
    orthography in Oaxaca, Mexico; Used as a generic transcription for a falling tone; Used in para-IPA notation Ꝼ ꝼ : Insular F is used in Norse and Old...
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    The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians. As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated...
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  • vowel in Old Norse–Icelandic to show length or vowel affection. For example, in Old Norse, ǫ represents the Old Norwegian vowel [ɔ], which in Old Icelandic...
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