[permalink] [id link]
In old Scandinavian sagas, Saaremaa is called Eysysla and in the Icelandic Sagas Eysýsla, which means exactly the same as the name of the island in Estonian: " the district ( land ) of island ".
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
old and Scandinavian
* Heiðabýr is derived from old Scandinavian sources and is the oldest known name.
The Scandinavian Peninsula occupies part of the Baltic Shield, a stable and large crust segment formed of very old, crystalline metamorphic rocks.
The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came into common usage, are unknown ; in Scandinavian languages, lapp means " a patch of cloth for mending ", which may be a description of the clothing, called a gakti, that the Sámi wear.
Together with an increasing centralization of government in the Scandinavian countries, the old system of leidang — a fleet mobilization system, where every skipen ( ship community ) had to deliver one ship and crew — was discontinued.
William was a Norman French-speaking fifth-generation descendant of the Viking war-leader Rollo, the first Scandinavian ruler of Normandy ; but Norman historians since Dudo of St. Quentin still celebrated the old Norse heritage of the ducal dynasty.
Also, there is yet another rare earth element, scandium, which is named after the entire region of the Scandinavian Peninsula, via its old name of " Scandia ".
In the summer of 1802, when Oehlenschläger had an old Scandinavian romance, as well as a volume of lyrics, in the press, the young Norse philosopher, Henrik Steffens, came back to Copenhagen after a long visit to Schelling in Germany, full of new romantic ideas.
According to Scandinavian tradition, Edward fought alongside Edmund ; as Edward was at most thirteen years old at the time, the story is disputed.
In Scandinavian countries, Saturday is called lördag, " lørdag ," or laurdag, the name being derived from the old word laugr / laug ( hence Icelandic name Laugardagur ), meaning bath, thus Lördag equates to bath-day.
In Scandinavia, the old Scandinavian religion contained human sacrifice, and both the Norse sagas and German historians relate of this, see e. g. Temple at Uppsala and Blót.
The name " Gunnersbury " means " Manor house of a woman called Gunnhildr ", and is from an old Scandinavian personal name + Middle English-bury, manor or manor house.
The town was surrounded by secure castle walls and the name Fishguard derives from old Norse fiskigarðr meaning " fish catching enclosure ", indicating that there may have been a Scandinavian trading post, although no evidence has been found.
The contiguous urban area, or locality of Rättvik lies on Lake Siljan, and had 4, 588 inhabitants in 2005 ;< ref name = scb > it is widely known for its old tradition of folkmusic and the beauty of the surroundings close to Lake Siljan ; it is included on many tours of Sweden as an example of a traditional Swedish and Scandinavian way of living.
In the Scandinavian populations, old males ' antlers fall off in December, young males ' fall off in the early spring, and females ' fall off in the summer.
These burial mounds may represent North Europe ’ s most extensive collection of graves of the old Scandinavian Yngling dynasty.
The huldra is a part of old Scandinavian folklore.
Other names that retain the theonym are Inguiomerus / Ingemar and Yngling, the name of an old Scandinavian dynasty.
The old Scandinavian sagas, perhaps dating back to the times of the Angles and Jutes give the impression that Jutland has been divided into a northern and a southern part with the border running along the Kongeå River.
To support his ( allegedly ) historical saga he related it to old Scandinavian folklore, describing a nucleus that is supposed to be the origin of both the Scandinavian and the Finnish cultures.
* Berserker, berserkergang, an initiatory Nordic warrior-rite ; the young Scandinavian warrior of old or Viking had to symbolically transform into a bear or wolf before he could become an elite warrior ( cf.
The name for the common mountain pasture in most Scandinavian languages derives from the old Norse term setr.
Not knowing whether the old Norse civilization remained in Greenland or not — and worried that if it did, it would still be Catholic 200 years after the Scandinavian homelands had experienced the Reformation — a joint merchant-clerical expedition led by the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede was sent to Greenland in 1721.
Their songs are mainly old Scandinavian ballads.
old and sagas
The historians of mid-19th century put great trust in the factual truth of Snorri's narrative, as well as other old Norse sagas.
Archaeology has given support to the long-held theory that old Norse sagas show Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus.
There are also no other Icelandic sagas or old Norwegian sources that would mention " Finland " in a Norwegian context.
Sigurd Hring ( Old Norse: Sigurðr hringr ( Hringr meaning ' Ring ')) ( ca 750 ) was a legendary Swedish and Danish king mentioned in many old Scandinavian sagas.
Eystein was the son of Harald Gille, who was king of Norway from 1130 to 1136, and a woman whose Gaelic name is rendered in the old Norse sagas as Bjaðök.
According to the Vinland sagas, when Snorri was 3 years old, his family left Vinland because of hostilities with Native Americans ( called Skrælings by the settlers, which is the Old Norse equivalent of the English term " wretches ").
In some ways this marks a return to the old idea of oral preservation of the sagas, but the folklorists do not necessarily focus on historical accuracy.
While he is rather old and not as imaginative as Vicky, he is quite knowledgeable in sagas and legend lore, and he is respected as a fair judge and mediator.
More than most sagas, Gísla saga makes use of motifs from the Eddaic poems, in particular by referring to Guðrún Gjúkadóttir to represent old ways of vengeance and family honor.
:" The old farmer Jens Christian Djurhuus of Kollafjørður has composed many ballads based on the sagas.
old and Saaremaa
The Swedish and German name of the island is Dagö ( day island ), Dagø in Danish — a calque of its old Finnish name Päivänsalo ( day island ); compare Ösel ( Yösalo – night island ) for Saaremaa.
On the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, old fishing boats may be burnt in the large pyres set ablaze.
According to Meri, it is possible that Thule derives from the old folk poetry of Estonia, which depicts the birth of the crater lake in Kaali, Saaremaa.
old and is
It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.
Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead.
One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.
It is a total situation that is defended: the `` good old days ''.
But The Holy Sinner is not simply a retelling of old stories for an old man's entertainment.
Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.
Seen in decorating circles of late is a renewed interest in an old art: embroidery.
It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy off the bristles.
1.532 seconds.