Skuld is derived from the Old Norse verb skole / skulle, " need / ought to be / shall be "; its meaning is " that which should become, or that needs to occur ".

Verðandi is literally the present tense of the Old Norse verb " verða ", " to become ", and is commonly translated as " in the making " or " that which is happening / becoming "; it is related to the Dutch word worden and the German word werden, both meaning " to become ".

One account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921 claims that Norse warriors were sometimes buried with enslaved women with the belief that these women would become their wives in Valhalla.

The Norse had become separated from their kin in Europe for so long that most of their friendships and alliances had fallen away, hurting some of their trading and eventual protection ; political changes in Europe hastened this process.

Wyrd has cognates in Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt, Old Norse urðr, Dutch worden ( to become ) and German werden.

The Old Norse letter á is retained, but has become a diphthong, pronounced in Icelandic and in Faroese.

It is unclear why the short-term settlements did not become permanent, though it was in part because of hostile relations with the indigenous peoples, referred to as Skrælings by the Norse.

Areas from Norse mythology are included, such as Niflheim, the land of the dead, and Valhalla, where players can become Transcendent Classes.

Some theories which were developed on the fringes ( for example, continental drift, existence of Troy, heliocentrism, the Norse colonization of the Americas, and Big Bang Theory ) have become mainstream because of the discovery of supportive evidence.

At that time, he swam against the stream, but he clearly expressed that which has become an ever stronger certainty today: a large part of the myths of the Germanic tradition — and that is to say basically the Old Norse tradition — must be set back in a time when the undivided Proto-Indo-European people themselves created the vessel of their worldview in myths.

A Migration Period Germanic gold bracteate featuring a depiction of a bird, horse, and stylized head wearing a Suebian knot sometimes theorized to represent Germanic god Wōden and what would later become Sleipnir and Hugin and Munin | Hugin or Munin in Germanic mythology, later attested in the form of Norse mythology.

For example, the Old English name Scipeton (" sheep farm "), which would normally become * Shipton in modern English, instead was altered to Skipton, since Old English sc ( pronounced ' sh ') was usually cognate with Old Norse sk — thus obscuring the meaning, since the Old Norse word for ' sheep ' was entirely different.

When, after the Saxon victory in the Battle of Ethandun in 878, the Saxon King Alfred the Great and Norse King Guthrum the Old agreed to partition England between them, the dividing line between their territories split what was to become Hertfordshire almost through the middle, along the line of the River Lea and then along Watling Street.

For example, the old Norse viku has become våkkå or vukku in certain dialects.

Raids by Norse Vikings had taken place for half a century, and the Norse settlements now seemed to have become permanent establishments more than just bases for raids.

The Norse Dublin had, by the beginning of Áed's reign, become an important, if not very trustworthy, ally in the struggle for power in Míde.

* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France after being given a Duchy by the French King, conquered other lands and protected the French coast from foreign attacks.

The definitions given above are based partly on a historical understanding of the relationship between Britons, Angles and Gaels ( and later, Norse and Normans ) which was more complex than a simple process of invasion and settlement, and partly on geography which becomes less well defined as we move north.

Although Jèrriais is occasionally misleadingly described as a mixture of Norse and French, it would be more linguistically accurate to state that when the Norse-speaking Normans ( lit.

Gruffydd hired a Norse fleet from a settlement in Ireland to patrol the Menai and prevent the Norman army from crossing, however the Normans were able to pay off the fleet to instead ferry them to Môn.

The Normans have Norse mythology in their Viking heritage, however, they were known to readily assimilate into other cultures.

Though the last Norse king of Dublin was killed by the Normans in 1171, the population of the city retained their distinctiveness based on their origins for some further generations.

The race's name may likely be a reference to the historical Normans or Norsemen, given the game's focus on Norse mythology.

Historically, British people were thought to be descended from the varied ethnic stocks that settled there before the 11th century ; the pre-Celts, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Norse and the Normans.

The Normans, first called in by the Lombards to fight the Byzantines for control of Apulia and Calabria ( under the likes of Melus of Bari and Arduin, among others ), had become rivals for hegemony in the south.

* 912-The Normans become Christian

We French-Canadians are Normans, not Latins, but we have become Latinized over a long period of years.

The tribal polity evolved to a medieval feudal society, adopting legal traditions from Rome, and the elite evolved to become broadly " Frankish " in custom, a change strengthened by the immigration of ( Anglo-Saxon ) English, Normans and French.

While the dynasty of the Angevins was successful, their rivals, the Normans, had conquered England, while the Poitevins had become Dukes of Aquitaine as well as Dukes of Gascony and the Count of Blois became Count of Champagne.

The vernacular French form Amable was brought by the Normans to the British Isles where both Amabel and the abbreviated Mabel were common during the Middle Ages to subsequently become obsolete apart from Mabel remaining in regular use in Ireland where it was perceived as a variant of the Celtic name Maeve.

Ailill ( or Oilioll ), son of Slánoll, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland ; scholars now believe these kings to be a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity which did not become a reality till the Normans.

During the reign of Charles the Simple ( 898 – 922 ), Normans under Rollo from Norway, were settled in an area on either side of the River Seine, downstream from Paris, that was to become Normandy.