Crossword clues for norse
norse
- Old language that gives us "berserk"
- Like the Valkyries
- Like the Aesir
- Icelandic, e.g
- From Bergen
- Earliest Icelanders
- Branch of mythology with Thor and Odin
- Vinland visitors
- Vikings' tongue
- The Vikings
- Settlers of Iceland
- Scandinavian ancestors
- Resident of Oslo
- Relating to Scandinavia
- Olaf, for one
- Of the Vikings
- Odin's worshippers
- Medieval Scandinavians
- Longship language
- Like some Scandinavians
- Like Leif Eriksson
- It may be found in runes
- Eric the Red's language
- Bergen natives
- Ancient Icelandic settlers
- Akin to Vikings
- Visitors to Vinland
- Vikings' language
- Vikings' descendants
- Thor's mythology branch
- Some ancient mariners
- Snore (anag)
- Scandinavian explorers
- Scandinavian of yore
- Saga language
- Oslo residents
- Old tongue that gave us "rotten" and "egg"
- Old Scandinavian
- Old language that gives us "geyser"
- Of Vikings
- Of Thor, Odin, etc
- Natives of Trondheim
- Mythology with Odin and Thor
- Mythology with Mjolnir and Hrothgar
- Longship sailors, e.g
- Longship sailors
- Lillehammer natives
- Like Ymir
- Like Tyr
- Like the mythology of Odin and Thor
- Like the mythological Aesir-Vanir War
- Like the gods Thor and Odin
- Like the gods Thor and Loki
- Like someone whose O might look like Ø
- Like some paganism
- Like some gods
- Like Odin or the Valkyries
- Like Odin and Loki
- Like myths of Valhalla
- Like Loki, Thor, and Odin
- Like Leif
- Like Hel and Odin
- Like Eric or Leif
- Like crook and creek, etymologically
- Leif Ericson's crew
- Leif Ericson, by birth
- Language that gives us "ugly" and "berserk"
- Language that gives us "ransack" and "berserk"
- Language that gives us "floe"
- Language that gave us the word "berserk"
- Language that gave us "reindeer"
- Language that gave us "berserk"
- Language on a longship
- Language of the Vikings
- Language from which "reindeer" comes
- Language from which "geyser" derives
- Language "Viking" came from
- Icelandic settlers
- Icelanders' ancestors
- Hoping to head to Valhalla, perhaps
- Grieg and Flagstad
- From Trondheim
- From Oslo, e.g
- From Lillehammer, say
- From Iceland, e.g
- Ericson, for one
- Eric, for one
- Eric the Red e.g
- Danish language ancestor
- Certain Icelandic settlers
- Certain gods
- Branch of mythology with Loki and Thor
- Bergen resident
- Ancient raiders
- St. Olaf's subjects
- From Trondheim, e.g
- Like Eric the Red
- Like some myths
- It can be found in runes
- Whence the word "troll"
- Early settlers of Iceland
- Like Odin and Thor
- Vikings, e.g.
- Like Thor or Frigg
- Like Vikings
- Like Valhalla's heroes
- Like the dragon Fafnir
- Leif's language
- Origin of the word "troll"
- Vinland pioneers
- Like the Vikings
- Kind of mythology that influenced Tolkien
- Like 1-Across
- Like 26-Down
- See 24-Across
- Like Loki or Thor
- Like Odin or 9-Down
- Like some mythology
- Language from which "sky" and "egg" are derived
- Like Ymir and Yggdrasil
- Like the origin of the names for some days of the week
- Like longship sailors
- Like 36-Down, e.g.
- From 15-Across
- Like the myth of Ragnarok
- Like early visitors to modern Nova Scotia
- Language from which "litmus" comes
- Like the settlers of Iceland
- Like Odin or Thor
- An inhabitant of Scandinavia
- A native or inhabitant of Norway
- The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
- Subjects of Olav V
- West Scandinavians
- Vikings, e.g
- Scandinavian language
- Swedes' neighbors
- Early settlers in the Orkneys
- From Oslo, for example
- They wrote in runes
- Language of Iceland
- Icelandic, e.g.
- The Scandinavians
- Like Amundsen
- Ibsen, for one
- Ancient explorers
- Old Scandinavian tongue
- Rollo's men
- Some Scandinavians
- Natives of Bergen
- Of Oslo origin
- Scandinavian group
- Adjective for 31 Across
- Crew for Eric the Red
- Bergen-born, say
- Scandinavians
- People of Oslo
- People of Bergen
- People of Scandinavia
- Harald the Fairhead's people
- Natives of Telemark
- Oslo citizens
- Old Norwegian
- Feature about right for old language
- Family of Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
- Language once spoken in Bergen or Senja
- Language comprehended by Armenian or Serbian
- Bouquet welcomes king from old Scandinavia
- Innate ability to grasp reading or writing of ancient language
- European language
- Oslo native
- Mythology branch of Thor and Odin
- Like Hägar the Horrible
- Like Thor and Loki
- Certain Scandinavian
- Like Thor and Odin
- Like Erik the Red, e.g
- Viking language (with ''Old'')
- Odin's mythology
- Ancient Scandinavians
- Like Leif Ericson
- From Scandinavia
- Ancient mariners
- Northern Europeans
- Longship crewmen
- Like Valkyries
- The Norwegians
- Oslo people
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Norse \Norse\ (n[^o]rs), prop. a. [Dan. Norsk, fr. nord north. See North.] Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
Norse \Norse\, prop. n. The Norse language.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "a Norwegian," from obsolete Dutch Noorsch (adj.) "Norwegian," from noordsch "northern, nordic," from noord "north" (see north). Also in some cases borrowed from cognate Danish or Norwegian norsk. As a language, from 1680s. Old Norse attested from 1844. An Old English word for "a Norwegian" was Norðman. As an adjective from 1768.\n
\nIn Old French, Norois as a noun meant "a Norse, Norseman," also "action worth of a man from the North (i.e. usually considered as deceitful)" [Hindley, et. al.]; as an adjective it meant "northern, Norse, Norwegian," also "proud, fierce, fiery, strong."
Wikipedia
Norse may refer to:
Usage examples of "norse".
Christianity to Greenland, and the Norse discovery of America, were both effected in 1000, by one and the same man: Leif Ericsson, the son of Eric the Red.
To my mind, there is no reason whatsoever to doubt that the Norse colonists of Greenland did find America at the close of the Viking period or in the later Middle Ages, and did endeavour to establish a permanent foothold there.
Silk, of course, came from abroad, but it is probable that a great deal of the elaborate material mentioned above was made by Norse experts.
Before long its foliage decoration, so unusual in Norse design, was replaced by indigenous animalornament.
Jumne or Jumneta is the Norse name for it, Julin or Wolin the Slav name -- a conclusion all the more acceptable since the town probably had a mixed SlavScandinavian population.
Greek and the Scandinavian worlds lay the important Norse town of Kiev.
This concept is reflected in the Norse myth of Odin, wisest of the gods: even he is not credited with inventing the runes but rather with finding them and releasing from them their magical powers.
Some scholars declare that such action would be completely alien to the Norse mind.
The Bayeux Tapestry is an expression of a foreign feudal system very different from the Norse way of life.
It is odd that most of our knowledge about Norse houses in late Viking times and the Middle Ages should be derived from distant Greenland.
In the two superior social classes, earls and peasants, women enjoyed high esteem and full freedom, as Norse literature abundantly testifies.
The Swedish material is too insignificant to permit any general conclusions, but it appears that the Swedish Vikings were taller than the west Norse ones -- a difference which can still be seen in Scandinavians today, and which confirms Arabic statements about the exceptional height of the Rus.
The figure of Baldr is unique in Norse mythology and an enigma which scholars have not yet solved.
Apart from that, Heimdal is not very well defined in the circle of Norse gods.
A better impression of the Viking ideal is to be found in the heroic figures, both of the Norse tales and of Viking history.