Crossword clues for fiord
fiord
- Part of Norway's landscape (var.)
- Oslo, for one
- Viking's milieu
- Sea inlet: Var
- Part of Norway's landscape
- Norway sight
- Norway coastal inlet (Var.)
- Narrow inlet (Var.)
- Long narrow sea inlet between high cliffs
- Icy waterway: Var
- Glacial inlet: Var
- Glacial erosion result: Var
- Alaska coastline feature (Var.)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiord \Fiord\ (fy?rd; i or y consonant, [sect] 272), n. [Dan. & Norw. fiord. See Frith.] A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. [Written also fjord.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alternative form of fjord (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of fjord from=NZ English)
WordNet
n. a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway [syn: fjord]
Usage examples of "fiord".
But had Earl Hakon of Lade been able to look into the future, and see the disasters that awaited him at the hands of this fair haired young viking, he would surely have swept every fiord and channel in Norway in the endeavour to drag the runaway back and bring him to the doom that he had so easily escaped.
The realm is yours by the right of your royal descent from King Harald Fairhair, and I make no doubt that were you to sail into Thrandheim fiord, you would at once be hailed by the people as their deliverer and accepted as their sovereign king.
Olaf accepted the advice, and fared northward day and night until he came to Agdaness, at the mouth of the Thrandheim fiord, and here he made a landing.
Olaf entered the mouth of the fiord with his five longships and anchored off Agdaness, he heard that Earl Hakon was lying with his ships farther up the firth, and also that he was at strife with the bonders.
When Erland found that he was being pursued a great fear came upon him lest he should be driven farther into the fiord and into the clutches of the bonders, whom he knew to be waiting to give him battle, so when he saw that Olaf was coming close upon him he ran his ships aground, leapt overboard, and straightway made for the shore.
Olaf Triggvison rowed yet farther into the fiord to Trondelag, where all the chieftains and peasants were assembled.
I have heard that there lives a great viking in Salten fiord who is skilled in sorcery.
Salten fiord he encountered foul weather, and was forced to lie there storm stayed for many days.
He therefore sent his messengers through all the lands bordering on Thrandheim fiord summoning a great meeting of the bonders at a place named Frosta.
Thrandheim Fiord, and then as the wind caught her sails the oars were shipped and she sped onward with such even speed that all were astonished.
The ships were to assemble in Thrandheim Fiord in the first week in summer.
Southward he sailed, and as he came in turn to fiord after fiord many vikings and wealthy warriors joined him with their ships.
You saw that the entrance was through a fiord, but there are countless thousands of fiords on this coast, many of which look like this one.
The brothers will then direct you how to sail to reach your own country, but you will not be able to find our particular fiord again in many years of careful searching, unless it be by accident or unusual good luck.
Reabonian warriors who kept out of sight below decks, and which was just then entering the fiord which led to Huitsen, was issuing swift orders to the mojak of the vessel.