Example sentences for: norse

How can you use “norse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It corresponds to the old Norse jól which was a heathen festival lasting twelve days, from December to January.

  • 2. Huge cow in Norse creation myth

  • (Alas, despite the 18th-century spelling, gaumless, I believe the term comes from Old Norse gaumr heed).

  • While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.

  • Which of the following is a well-designed yet inexpensive CD rack sold at the popular Swedish furniture store, and which is a figure in Norse mythology?


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