Etymonline pushes the date for the parents of brittle even further back, invoking proto-germanic, Old High German and Old Norse.
A figurative, usually compound expression used in place of a name or noun, especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry; for example, storm of swords is a kenning for battle.
Its theme is the Jotnar, the giants of Old Norse tradition, but you can spot the odd Norse god if you keep an eye out.
The King sifts through a shelf to find an ancient book inscribed with Old Norse runes. He opens the book, scrambles to a page with an ancient map.
Akin To: Old Norse dengja.
A collection of Old Norse poems, called the Elder or Poetic Edda, assembled in the early13th century.
English got the word from Old Norse, not Africa.
Erik was on the lam (from the Old Norse word lemja) for killing a man who had refused to return some borrowed bedsteads.
In Scandinavia the North Germanic tribes spoke a language we now call Old Norse, the ancestor of the modern Scandinavian languages.
Still more decisive, because it comes about eight hundred years later, is a passage from the Old Norse poem of the twilight of the gods and the end of the world, the Voluspa.
Its name derives from two Old Norse words meaning 'god' and 'meadow'.
And in the 9th century Old Norse was carried far westward to Iceland.
國文精選館
