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You Speak Like a Viking

Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 19:15 MJA Uncategorized 20

 

Ancient Origins-

[…] Amazingly, traces of Old Norse still exist in the English language today. It is estimated that almost 5,000 basic words in English (almost twenty percent) are so-called loan words from the Old Norse language which was spoken throughout Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) as well as in Scandinavian settlements and colonies. The Old Norse language also had a significant impact on syntax and grammar of the Old English language, and thereby also modern English. The following are popular words that you probably didn’t know had Old Norse origin.  MORE

20 Comments on You Speak Like a Viking

  8. here’s another word … ‘viking’ … it’s not a noun, it’s a verb
    nobody was a ‘viking’ … they went ‘viking’

    … brings new meaning to ‘I’m going full Viking on ya’ … 😉

  9. Phuck the Vikings. Brian Boru, King of Ireland, kicked there asses in the Battle of Clontarf, near Dublin in 1014. Drove their asses home. Those who stayed, mingled, and became real men. Thus Irish blondes on the East coast of Ireland. The dark haired Irish on the West coast are a different story.
    But the Vikings of old have turned into pussies, just like the Irish.

  12. @burner.
    Home of the viqueens?

    Sorry. A Minnesota guy gave me that line in the 80s.
    I don’t know if they still suck.
    It would be unfair and actually it would be terrible to be the best team in the nfl this year.

    Nobody cares. Sad.

  14. We should have many words from the Vikings – they WON!
    France (Normandy, for instance)
    Ireland
    England
    Wales
    Denmark
    Germany
    Italy (later – Count Rainulf)
    Sicily (later – King Roger I & II)
    Byzantium (the Hautevilles)
    Parts of North Africa
    And they may have been the “Sea People” who conquered Palestine.

    Spread their seed far and wide.

    izlamo delenda est …

  16. 🔵 WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW 🔵

    Is that the Viking raid of Lindisfarne monastery in England in 793 A.D. was a response to King Charlemagne of the Franks encroaching more and more into Germanic Anglo-Saxon lands, conquering and beheading citizens. –yeah, the pagan Vikings didn’t take to kindly to all that, and sprayed blood all over the monastery in retaliation.

    For the next 273 years they raided England, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Constantinople, established Novgorad and Kiev, Belarus (Rus = Vikings from Swedish areas), Ukraine, colonized Iceland, Greenland, went to Canada, then conquered England in 1066-1154.

    So ends the Viking empire. –Pretty good for a bunch of people with wooden boats and a whole lot of aggression.

    Now look at their country! What happened?

  18. New words are entering English all the time to add to the very old, some of which stand to become extremely important day-to-day words in a future Britain. Words like, ‘dhimmi’, ‘hijab’, ‘burka’, ‘niqab’, ‘Shari’a’, ‘jihad’, ‘qital’, ‘jizya’, and ‘kafir’.

  20. Ya sure, you betcha. “Would you like some lutefisk and some green Jello to go along with your cream of mushroom soup (I hate cream of mushroom soup, I used to tell my kids it was cream of slug soup) hot dish.” And they can keep the pickled herring and pickled pigs feet too.

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