Example sentences for: norse

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

  • Ericson might not have slept here, but his Norse ancestors might have, you betcha.

  • 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.

  • 2. Huge cow in Norse creation myth

  • The Viking invasion of the eighth and ninth centuries gave a strong practical bias to the earlier existing Celtic culture, and many Norse words remain in the dialect.

  • Norse culture peaked 1,500 years ago when the Vikings-- über capitalists--pillaged the British Isles.


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