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norse

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1. norse - Noun

2. norse - Adjective

3. Norse - Proper noun

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Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.

The Norse language.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I called it a small light shining and shaping in the huge vortex of Norse darkness. Yet the darkness itself was alive; consider that. It was the eager inarticulate uninstructed Mind of the whole Norse People, longing only to become articulate, to go on articulating ever farther! Thomas Carlyle

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. Tom Wolfe

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking. Katheryn Winnick

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. Penelope Lively

A wild impetuous whirlwind of passion and faculty slumbered quiet there; such heavenly melody dwelling in the heart of it. A noble rough genuineness; homely, rustic, honest; true simplicity of strength; with its lightning-fire, with its soft dewy pity;-like the old Norse Thor, the Peasant-god! Thomas Carlyle

The notion of a language of the gods appears in Sanskrit, Greek, Old Norse and Hittite cultures. Cyrus H. Gordon

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