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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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