1, Scandinavian place-names; Old Norse studies.

2, From the Old Norse Skratta, a goblin.

3, A collection of Old Norse poems, called the Elder or Poetic Edda, assembled in the early 3th century.

4, And in the 9 th century Old Norse was carried far westward to Iceland.

5, Old Norse legends say that the gods secured eternal youth by eating apples.

6, Erik was on the lam (from the Old Norse word lemja) for killing a man who had refused to return some borrowed bedsteads.

7, Originally "lug" is thought to have come from Old Norse and is reflected in Swedish where lugga refers to pulling a person by the hair.

8, Before they became Christians, the English people worshipped old Norse gods.

9, From the old Norse myth people got the idea that 13 people sitting ata table to have a dinner was unlucky.

10, Berserk refers to an Old Norse word used to describe the Viking warriors.

11, Its name derives from two Old Norse words meaning 'god' and 'meadow'.

12, The name of the mountain appears to be derived from an old Norse word.

13, But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse.

14, Etymonline pushes the date for the parents of brittle even further back, invoking proto-germanic, Old High German and Old Norse.

15, And to the already existing synonyms, English wrath and Old Norse anger,(http:///old norse.html) the French added a third word— ire.

16, The ultimate postmortem destination for Viking warriors was Valhalla, or "Odin's Hall", made famous in the Old Norse sagas.

17, The specific root viking reappears in the 11th century in Old Norse, with a different emphasis.

18, Before they became Christians, the English people worshipped the old Norse gods.

19, Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse?

20, Who could safely sort out ea, as in Eton, meaning a river, from ey, Old Norse for island?