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Old Norse
North Germanic language
Norn
extinct Germanic language spoken in the Northern Isles of Scotland
Þ
letter of the Latin alphabet
Ð
class=skin-invert-image|thumb|alt=Lower case and upper case of Eth (, expressed by a sans serif single-stroke-width font and a serif variable-stroke-width font|Eth in Arial and [[Times New Roman]]
Œ
class=skin-invert-image|thumb|200px|The word onomatopoeia with the œ ligature Œ (minuscule: œ), in English known as ethel or œthel (also spelt ēðel or odal), is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally contained the diphthong οι, and in a few non-Greek words. These usages continue in English and French. In French, the words that were borrowed from Latin and contained the Latin diphthong written as œ now generally have é or è; but œ is still used in some non-learned French words, representing open-
kenning
thumb|Detail of the Old English manuscript of the poem [[Beowulf, showing the words (), meaning .]]
Garðaríki
thumb|350px|Towns of mentioned in Old Scandinavian sources, according to T. Jackson, E. Melnikova, K. Müllenhoff, V. Thomsen, and A. Bugge.
Bjarmaland
thumb|upright=1.2|Bjarmaland (Biarmia) as illustrated in the Carta marina (1539) by [[Olaus Magnus]]
Old Gutnish
extinct language
Old Norwegian
extinct language
Old Swedish
North Germanic language
Greenlandic Norse
extinct North Germanic language spoken by Norse settlers in Greenland
First Grammatical Treatise
Treatise on Old Norse phonology
ergi
''' (noun) and (adjective) are two Old Norse terms of insult, denoting effeminacy or other unmanly behaviour. ' (also '') is "unmanly" and ergi'' is "unmanliness"; the terms have cognates in other Germanic languages such as ', ', arag, or arug.
Old West Norse
language
Eivor
Eivor, Eivør or Øyvor is a female given name in the Nordic countries. In Sweden, 4,922 people bear the name. The average age is 78.
Old Norse letter used to represent the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/
Old East Norse
dialect of Old Norse