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Norse, another name for the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages Germanic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by about 470 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. ..... Click the link for more information. ). The modern Norse languages—Danish, Faeroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish—all stem from an earlier form of Norse known as Old Norse. Now extinct, Old Norse was the language spoken by the Germanic tribes living in Scandinavia before A.D. 1000. It was first written in runes runes, ancient characters used in Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian inscriptions . They were probably first used by the East Goths (c.300), who are thought to have derived them from Helleno-Italic writing. ..... Click the link for more information. , some examples of which go back to the 3d cent. A.D., but later the Roman alphabet was used. The earliest extant Old Norse manuscripts in the Roman alphabet are from the 12th cent. Old Norse is also noteworthy as the language of the Eddas and sagas (see Old Norse literature Old Norse literature, the literature of the Northmen, or Norsemen, c.850–c.1350. It survives mainly in Icelandic writings, for little medieval vernacular literature remains from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark. ..... Click the link for more information. ; Icelandic literature Icelandic literature, the literature of Iceland. For the earliest literature of Iceland, see Old Norse literature . Early WritingsWith Iceland's loss of political independence (1261–64) came a decline in literature, although the linguistic ..... Click the link for more information. ). BibliographySee E. V. Garden, An Introduction to Old Norse (2d ed. 1957). |
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| In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale. We could not, in all conscience, have picked out a better day for our regatta had we had the free choice of all the days that ever dawned upon the lonely struggles and solitary agonies of ships since the Norse rovers first steered to the westward against the run of Atlantic waves. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. |
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