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The 31 pages that link to Old Norse, each with the reason it gives.

• Viking AgeRelated: Its words and place-names remain evidence of settlement across the British Isles.

• DanelawRelated: Contact with Old Norse speakers contributed vocabulary and grammatical influence to English.

• Old EnglishCompared with: Contact between Old Norse and Old English left shared vocabulary and may have eased some grammatical changes.

• Snorri SturlusonNarrower topic: Snorri’s works were composed in the medieval Icelandic form of this language.

• Poetic EddaNarrower topic: The poems’ language carries their distinctive vocabulary, meter, and inherited formulas.

• Prose EddaRelated: The handbook’s surviving text is written in this language.

• Germanic languagesBroader topic: Its texts document the early history of the northern branch.

• Danish languageRelated: Danish developed from the eastern dialects of Old Norse.

• Proto-GermanicBroader topic: Its extensive records preserve forms that help trace inherited Germanic vocabulary and grammar.

• Icelandic languageNarrower topic: Icelandic descends from this language, whose literature and grammar remain unusually accessible in Icelandic.

• HeimskringlaNarrower topic: The collection’s original language connects its prose to Icelandic literary culture.

• NorsemenRelated: A shared language linked communities across distant settlements.

• Icelandic sagasNarrower topic: Most Icelandic sagas were composed in this language, whose vernacular prose gave them their distinctive style.

• Swedish languageRelated: Swedish developed from the eastern varieties of Old Norse.

• Rasmus RaskRelated: Rask studied its grammar and texts, helping establish it as a subject of systematic philology.

• North Germanic languagesBroader topic: It is the common historical ancestor of the modern North Germanic languages.

• Old Norse literatureNarrower topic: It is the language in which most surviving works of this tradition were composed.

• Skaldic poetryNarrower topic: Skaldic poems survive chiefly in this language, whose inflections enable intricate wordplay.

• VarangiansNarrower topic: It was the language of the Scandinavian communities from which Varangians came.

• VöluspáNarrower topic: The poem survives in this medieval language.

• Faroese languageNarrower topic: Faroese developed from the western Old Norse dialects carried to the islands by settlers.

• GylfaginningNarrower topic: Gylfaginning survives in medieval manuscripts written in this language.

• Norwegian languageNarrower topic: Norwegian descends from the western varieties of Old Norse.

• Icelandic literatureNarrower topic: Medieval Icelandic writing belongs to the western branch of this shared language.

• Scandinavian languagesBroader topic: It is their principal historical ancestor.

• SkagerrakRelated: The name Skagerrak is generally traced to Scandinavian words with Old Norse roots.

• ScandinavismNarrower topic: Linguistic descent from Old Norse supported claims of kinship across the Scandinavian kingdoms.

• GeysirRelated: The word Geysir derives from an Icelandic verb related to Old Norse language roots.

• History of IcelandNarrower topic: Iceland’s settlers brought the language that developed into Icelandic.

• History of ScotlandRelated: Norse settlement and rule left lasting marks on Scotland’s islands and northern coasts.

• Scandinavian studiesBroader topic: Its texts and linguistic legacy connect medieval Scandinavia to modern language and literature studies.