Haugebonden (meaning mound peasant or farmer; bonde in Norwegian Bokm쎥l can mean both aforementioned nouns while hauge means mound or pile) is the title of a traditional Norwegian medieval ballad or folk song (also performed during Christmas or Yule time as a Christmas carol) which can trace its origins to Telemark county (fylke) in southern…
Norn (alternatively known as Norroena) is an extinct North Germanic language which was very close to Old Norse (or norr쎸nt as it is known in Norwegian Bokm쎥l), the language the Norse spoke during the tumultuous Viking Age, a historical period of time that was part of the Early Middle Ages. It was mainly spoken in…
The Norse discovery of North America is well-known and quite well documented throughout the passage of time, initially recounted in the famous Icelandic sagas (whose authorship was and remains quasi-anonymous) written down during the High Middle Ages in Iceland (more specifically the Saga of the Greenlanders or Gr쎦nlendinga saga as well as the Saga of…
The LEGO Knights’ Kingdom browser games were some of the most captivating browser games of my childhood. As a kid (and even to this very day) I was a big fan of LEGO and, more specifically, a big fan of the Castle and Knights’ Kingdom II theme respectively sub-theme (LEGO Knights’ Kingdom is a sub-theme…
Landnama is a survival-based video game developed by Sonderland Games set in Viking Age Iceland, revolving around the Norse settlement of the island. The title of the video game references the medieval manuscript Landn쎡mab쎳k (i.e. the Book of the Settlements in Old Icelandic or Old Norse) which recounts the Norse colonisation of Iceland during the…
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