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| Subject: The usual Old Norse form of Norway is Noregr Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:43 pm | |
| The usual Old Norse form of Norway is Noregr, and the usual mediæval Latin form Nor(th)vegia, though the earliest known written occurrence of the name is English (in the late-9th-century account of the travels of Ohthere of Hålogaland), in the form norðweg.[14][15] Some mediæval texts attribute the name eponymously to the mythical King Nórr, son of Snær (a personification of snow), again a descendant of Fornjót, a legendary ruler of Finland. However, it's generally assumed the name is derived from Old Norse *norðvegr, meaning "the northern route" (the way northwards). Norse also had the terms austrvegr "the lands in the east" (Russia), vestrvegr "the lands in the west" (Britain and Ireland) and suðrvegr "the lands in the south" (the Mediterranean). There is, however, some possibility that mediæval forms in norð-, north- are folk-etymologizations and that the name has other origins. live psychicNY Polygraph test | |
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