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Concerning the discrepancy in names over the centuries, the most probable explanation is that the original name Lulliacum or Lugniacum was later corrupted into Nulliacum / Nully by inversion of the consonants, perhaps under the influence of an old Celtic word meaning "swampy land, boggy land" (as was the land around Neuilly-sur-Seine in ancient ...
Crique-or -crique, from the Old Norse kirkja, meaning "church", but this should not be confused with the French term, la crique from Old Norse kriki, "creek". Examples of this appellative are la Crique , Criquetot-l'Esneval , Criquetot-le-Mauconduit or Yvecrique .
The first of the three lands the Greenland Norse found in North America. According to a footnote in Arthur Middleton Reeves 's The Norse Discovery of America (1906), "the whole of the northern coast of America, west of Greenland, was called by the ancient Icelandic geographers Helluland it Mikla , or "Great Helluland"; and the island of ...
Norse people explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. They also reached Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Anatolia. This category lists towns and settlements established or inhabited by Scandinavian or Scandinavian-descended settlers during the Viking Age (roughly, 750-1000 CE).
The Vikings arrived in Paris on Easter Sunday, 29 March, [8] entered the city and plundered it. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] During the siege, a plague broke out in their camp. The Norse had been exposed to the Christian religion , and after first praying to the Norse gods, they undertook a fast, acting on the advice of one of their Christian prisoners, and the ...
The element lutetium was named in honor of its discovery in a Paris laboratory, and the characteristic building material of the city of Paris, Lutetian Limestone, derives from the ancient name. The " Lutetian " is, in the geologic timescale , a stage or age in the Eocene Epoch.
Old Norman contained Old Norse loanwords unknown in other Old French dialects at that time. [4] Old Norman would be brought to England by William the Conqueror and his followers in what became known as the Norman Conquest, forming the ruling class of Anglo-Normans. Over time, their language evolved from the continental Old Norman to a dialect ...
Old East Norse or Old East Nordic between 800 and 1100 is called Runic Swedish in Sweden and Runic Danish in Denmark, but for geographical rather than linguistic reasons. Any differences between the two were minute at best during the more ancient stages of this dialect group.