Norse

Norse is demonym for Norsemen, a medieval North Germanic ethnolinguistic group ancestral to modern Scandinavians, defined as speakers of Old Norse language from about the 9th to the 13th centuries.

Norse may also refer to:

Culture and religion

Language

  • Proto-Norse language, the Germanic language predecessor of Old Norse
  • Old Norse, a North Germanic language spoken in Scandinavia and areas under Scandinavian influence from c. 800AD to c. 1300AD
    • Old West Norse, the western dialect of Old Norse, spoken in Norway and areas under Norwegian influence
      • Greenlandic Norse
      • Norn language, an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in Shetland and Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and in Caithness
    • Old East Norse, the eastern dialect of Old Norse, spoken in Denmark, Sweden and areas under their influence

Location

Sport

Other uses

gollark: If I was making stuff people actually *depended* on in large quantities I would probably want cashmoney, in order to be able to keep it maintained and all.
gollark: Or, well, things which are practical enough that multiple people are likely to use them for serious purposes.
gollark: If I was actually making some sort of useful thing or something which might be a component of some important systems, I might GPLv3 it and try and sell commercial licenses, but... I don't make useful things.
gollark: My stuff is all just shoved under the MIT license because honestly who cares.
gollark: Just say something like "ported from Cobalt (here) according to the terms of (license)".

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Norse
  • Nordic (disambiguation)
  • Norsca, a fictional land in the Warhammer Fantasy game setting


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