* Norsemen, the Scandinavian people before the Christianisation of Scandinavia

Norse and Norsemen are applied to the Scandinavian population of the period from the late 8th century to the 11th century.

In the modern Scandinavian languages, no common word for Norsemen exists.

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

This flag, called the Dannebrog, inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional Scandinavian flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm, as well as flags for the non-Scandinavian Shetland and Orkney.

" In Scandinavian languages, an accordion is simply called " harmonika ," whereas a harmonica is a " mundharmonika " ( mouth harmonica ).

Saint Olga (, also called Olga Prekrasna ( Ольга Прекрасна ), or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga ; in some Scandinavian sources she was called by other names.

* Scandinavian parliamentary bodies are also called Reichstag when referred to in the German Language.

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.

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 ".

He spoke of a notation made by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga which relates that " Odin ( a Scandinavian god who was one of the kings ) came to the North with his people from a country called Aser.

FreeCell's origins may date back even further to 1945 and a Scandinavian game called Napoleon in St. Helena ( not the game Napoleon at St. Helena, also known as Forty Thieves ).

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 the Scandinavian countries, the head of a university or a gymnasium ( higher secondary schools ) is called a rektor.

In spring of 2010, 60 metres from the Market Square-on a new square between the square of Kościuszko and Jainty, Piekarska and Dzieci Lwowskich streets-a new commercial and entertainment centre called " Agora " opened, built by the Scandinavian company Braaten & Pedersen.

It is still a popular game in parts of the world, especially in Finland where a specific variant of five-card stud called Sökö ( also known as Canadian stud or Scandinavian stud ) is played.

European, Australian, Latin American, Spanish and Asian versions of TNT were launched in the 1990s but were exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from the MGM and Warner Brothers archives ( The UK and Scandinavian TNT did show WCW Monday Nitro on Friday nights just four days after its US broadcast, and the Latin American version aired a children's block called " Magic Box ").

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 letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs (" giant ") in the Scandinavian rune poems, its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name being Thurisaz.

In medieval times, speakers of all the Scandinavian languages could understand one another to a significant degree and it was often referred to as a single language, called the " Danish tongue " until the 13th century by some in Sweden and Iceland.

The Slavs and the Byzantines also called them Varangians ( ON: Væringjar, meaning sworn men or from Slavic варяги supposedly deriving from the root " вар "—" profit " as coming from North they would profit by trading goods and not producing them, which had a negative connotation in Slavic culture of that time ), and the Scandinavian bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors were known as the Varangian Guard.

Riotminds created a brand new campaign setting called Trudvang which utilized cultures, creatures and monsters based on Scandinavian folklore instead of the standard fantasy creatures.

They include the Indian goddess Aditi who is called two faced as is the one who starts and concludes ceremonies, and Scandinavian god Heimdallr.

Guisborough was well-established at the time of the priory's founding ; the town's name refers to the fortified place of a Scandinavian called Gigr, who may have taken over a site established by the Anglo-Saxons or Romans who lived in the vicinity before the arrival of Vikings in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Aquavit is an important part of Scandinavian drinking culture, where it is often drunk during a formal procedure called " drinking snaps ".

A thing ( Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing ; German, Dutch ding ; modern Scandinavian languages: ting ) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead.

* 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.

The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960 ; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.

Primarily they were Vikings of Scandinavian origin, who ventured along the waterways extending from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas.

Scandinavian ( Norse ) Vikings explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare.

Scandinavian predation in Christian lands around the North Sea and the Irish Sea diminished markedly. Kilmuir, Skye | Blar a ' Bhuailte, site of the Vikings ' last stand in Skye The kings of Norway continued to assert power in parts of northern Britain and Ireland, and raids continued into the 12th century, but the military ambitions of Scandinavian rulers were now directed toward new paths.

Building on the linguistic and cultural connections between Norse-speaking Scandinavians and other Germanic groups in the far past, Scandinavian Vikings were portrayed in Nazi Germany as a pure Germanic type.

During the 9th and 10th centuries, Scandinavian Vikings established trade posts on the way from Scandinavia to the Byzantine Empire.

* Rolf Danielsen, Ståle Dyrvik, Tore Grønlie, Knut Helle, Edgar Hovland: Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times ( The most recent single volume academic history of Norway in English ) Scandinavian University Press 1995 ISBN 978-82-00-21803-6

The Scandinavian Vikings, or Varangians, also took part in the forming of Russian identity and state in the early Kievan Rus ' period of the late 1st millennium AD.

Vikings were Scandinavian warriors, pirates and traders who raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far as Al-Andalus and Italy from the late 8th – 11th century.

The stated purpose of the institute was to throw new light upon the Scandinavian culture in the age of migrations and Vikings.

Distinct from the rest of Europe, the Scandinavian Vikings maintained their own calendar during this time, which was divided into two seasons ; summer and winter.

Richard had contacts with Scandinavian Vikings throughout his reign.

Tarkington is a name, which was used by the Vikings, an ancient Scandinavian people who migrated to England and then to the U. S ..

Later in the period Scandinavian influences were added through the Vikings, then Celtic styles largely came to an end with the Norman invasion in 1169-1170 and subsequent introduction of Romanesque art.

; Vendel: The Dutch and Scandinavian cultures are in schism between the merchant Guilds and the ancient warrior traditions of the Vestenmannavnjar ( Vikings ).

Some believe that the Connemara developed from Scandinavian ponies that the Vikings first brought to Ireland.

The situation was worsened by raiding Scandinavian Vikings who used longships, vessels that in many ways were very close to galleys in design and functionality and also employed similar tactics.

Late in the period Scandinavian influences were added through the Vikings and mixed Norse-Gael populations, then original Celtic work came to end with the Norman invasion in 1169 – 1170 and the subsequent introduction of the general European Romanesque style.

The impact of the Vikings on Irish art is not seen until the late 11th century when Irish metal work begins to imitate the Scandinavian Ringerike and Urnes styles, for example the Cross of Cong.

During the Viking Age, the Vikings ( Scandinavian warriors and traders ) raided, colonized and explored large parts of Europe, the Middle East, northern Africa, and North America, more specifically the modern area identified as Newfoundland.