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Mads Lidegaard (2004): "Hvad troede de på? – religiøse tanker i oldtid og vikingetid" [What did they believe in? – religious thoughts in ancient times and the Viking Age], Gyldendal, ISBN 87-02-02703-8 (in Danish) Mads Lidegaard (1915–2006) was a prolific writer, teacher and theologian from Denmark. Iben Skibsted Klæsøe, ed. (2010).
The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær.Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers.
The Vikings buried their dead above ground and aligned the bodies facing west-southwest-east-northeast, with the head pointing in that direction. The menhirs of Hov on Suðuroy (see photo on the right) commemorate great personalities. Those who fell in battle received an upright stone, and those who grew old peacefully received a recumbent one.
Norsemen or Norse: Viking Age peoples of Nordic origin. Vikings: used in the Nordic countries to denote people who went raiding, pillaging or slave catching during the Viking Age. Used in a similar way by other peoples but can also mean Scandinavians in general. Minnewegian: colloquial term for a Norwegian Minnesotan.
The border between the Norsemen and more southerly Germanic tribes, the Danevirke, today is located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of the Danish–German border. The southernmost living Vikings lived no further north than Newcastle upon Tyne, and travelled to Britain more from the east than from the north. [citation needed]
As a young princess, Alfhild's chamber was guarded by a lizard and a snake, which scared away unworthy suitors. A Danish prince named Alf, also of Geatish descent, came to Geatland and defeated the animal guards. But Alfhild, advised by her mother, fled from Alf dressed as a man, and she became a shield maiden.
A Danish model was crowned Miss Universe on Saturday, and avid watchers of the famed competition are celebrating the winner being a biological woman following the pageant’s decision permitting ...
North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples [1] and in a medieval context Norsemen, [2] were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula. [3] They are identified by their cultural similarities, common ancestry and common use of the Proto-Norse language from around 200 AD, a language that around 800 AD became the Old Norse language, which in turn later became the North ...