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( Norse)
Norse is an adjective relating things to Norway, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Sweden. To refer to the modern people or culture of Norway, "Norwegian" is used. The etymology of the adjective "norse" is somewhat surprising, as one would expect it to have entered the English language through either the already present native stem "north" or via a Scandinavian language. Yet "Norse," which entered English in 1598, derives from the Dutch word "noors", the adjective form of "Norwegian". The Scandinavian equivalent of the word is norrøn, or norrön (Icelandic norræn). The modern English form (which sounds almost identical to the Dutch term) may be used in a number of ways. Norse may refer to In history
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