Expanding glaciers and ice cover spreading across Greenland began driving the Norse settlers out.
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Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island.
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The Council also monitors the Swedish language, tracking its development from Old Norse until now.
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Imagine something as real-looking as Benjamin Button but on the body of a massive Norse god.
Then, around 1200, temperatures began to drop, and Norse settlements were abandoned by about 1350.
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And the Norse goddess of fertility, Freyja, had a carriage that was pulled by two cats.
But the long history of Viking and Norse settlement in Scotland has left an indelible mark.
When the energy-rich Norwegians suggested a five-country Norse League, bringing in Iceland, too, the proposal struck a chord.
English, for example, is famously a muddle of German, Norse and medieval French.
For Sebottendorf, steeped in the myths of the Norse sagas, Thule was the ancient Aryan homeland (and probably Iceland).
The New Year's Eve Winter Carnival saw a parade inspired by Norse and Viking stories and North East traditions.
People talk about the ongoing Quinn saga, but this tale is much more in the mould of Greek tragedy than Norse myth.
In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the hall where slain heroes spend eternity.
When the company declined to pursue an appeal of a judge's ruling upholding the ban, another drilling company, Norse Energy, stepped in to appeal.
Scots words like bairn (child), midden (dump), muckle (large) and even kilt (from the verb kjalta, meaning "to fold") are derived from Old Norse.
As you drive 11km south to the top of the Trollstigen, which is Norse for Troll Ladder, you will climb 852m from sea level to glacial plateau.
Capital Innovators, a tech accelerator, has graduated its first group of start-ups and is seeing results in companies like web security firm Norse Corp.
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Aurok, a fully 3-D rendered character and fearless Norse warrior with supernatural strength, will battle endless waves of foes from the invading Cronarch army in a survival-mode arena.
This is a time when temperatures are held to have been as high as or higher than today's a warmth associated with the Norse settlement of Greenland and vineyards in England.
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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Concerned that England lacked a set of myths comparable to, say, the Norse legends, he created the fantasy realm of Middle-earth, home to a jumble of orcs, elves, wizards and hobbits.
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.
The last, surviving, written records of the Norse Greenland settlements, which had persisted for centuries, concern a marriage in 1408 A.D. in the church of Hvalsey, today the best preserved Norse ruin.
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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.
For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the Norse god of thunder, Thor.
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In Sweden, English language news website The Local strikes a suitably Nordic note, reporting that workmen digging a rail tunnel under Stockholm have found Mjoelnir, the hammer used in Norse mythology by the thunder god Thor.
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Something was needed to break the humdrum of months of days with only two to three hours of sunlight and nothing to do but read really long sagas on Norse mythology while munching on salted seal flippers.
Third, the new U.S.-spec Passat can be had with a choice of three and only three engines, one of which, the base 2.5-liter in-line five-cylinder, is a hunk of lumber pulled from the ribs of an ancient Norse longboat.
There are also other languages around: Manx, on the Isle of Man, a form of Norse (not spoken natively any more), Lallans, or Lowland Scots many argue is a separate language rather than the creole others argue it is.
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