The Council also monitors the Swedish language, tracking its development from Old Norse until now.

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Scots words like bairn (child), midden (dump), muckle (large) and even kilt (from the verb kjalta, meaning "to fold") are derived from Old Norse.

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Cumbrian angler and environmentalist Eric Hope said tarns, meres and lakes are all just local names with their roots in a mix of Cumbric, Old English, Old Norse and modern English.

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It's named for when, in the year 1000, the lawspeaker of Iceland made Christianity the official religion of Iceland and threw the carvings of the old Norse gods into the falls.

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Today, watching a rangy, red-haired farmer on an Icelandic horse shouting at his long-haired Icelandic sheep in a largely unchanged dialect of Old Norse is the closest any of us will get to a Viking Jurassic Park.

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