Old Norse language
E515673
Old Norse was the North Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age and is the ancestor of modern Scandinavian languages like Icelandic and Norwegian.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Norse | 195 |
| Old Norse language canonical | 4 |
| Old Norse Eiríkr | 1 |
| Old Norse Týsdagr | 1 |
| Old Norse Ullinshof | 1 |
| Old Norse Þrymheimr | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5368938 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Old Norse language Context triple: [Ingrid, hasOrigin, Old Norse language]
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A.
Old Icelandic
Old Icelandic is the medieval North Germanic language variety spoken and written in Iceland, best known as the primary language of the Icelandic sagas and much of Old Norse literature.
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B.
Old East Norse
Old East Norse was a medieval North Germanic language variety spoken in what is now Denmark and Sweden, forming one of the main branches of Old Norse.
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C.
Norse
Norse is a historical North Germanic language group, including Old Norse, that was spoken by the Vikings and significantly influenced many modern Scandinavian and North Atlantic languages.
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D.
Proto-Norse
Proto-Norse is the early form of the North Germanic language spoken in Scandinavia during the first centuries CE, known primarily from inscriptions in the Elder Futhark runic script.
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E.
Orkney Norn
Orkney Norn was a now-extinct North Germanic language variety once spoken in the Orkney Islands, derived from Old Norse and later replaced by Scots and English.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Old Norse language Target entity description: Old Norse was the North Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age and is the ancestor of modern Scandinavian languages like Icelandic and Norwegian.
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A.
Old Icelandic
Old Icelandic is the medieval North Germanic language variety spoken and written in Iceland, best known as the primary language of the Icelandic sagas and much of Old Norse literature.
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B.
Old East Norse
Old East Norse was a medieval North Germanic language variety spoken in what is now Denmark and Sweden, forming one of the main branches of Old Norse.
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C.
Norse
Norse is a historical North Germanic language group, including Old Norse, that was spoken by the Vikings and significantly influenced many modern Scandinavian and North Atlantic languages.
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D.
Proto-Norse
Proto-Norse is the early form of the North Germanic language spoken in Scandinavia during the first centuries CE, known primarily from inscriptions in the Elder Futhark runic script.
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E.
Orkney Norn
Orkney Norn was a now-extinct North Germanic language variety once spoken in the Orkney Islands, derived from Old Norse and later replaced by Scots and English.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
North Germanic language
ⓘ
historical language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Danish
ⓘ
Faroese ⓘ Icelandic ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Old English
ⓘ
Old High German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | four grammatical cases ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Old East Norse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Gutnish NERFINISHED ⓘ Old West Norse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender |
feminine
ⓘ
masculine ⓘ neuter ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
Heimskringla
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Icelandic sagas NERFINISHED ⓘ Poetic Edda NERFINISHED ⓘ Prose Edda NERFINISHED ⓘ Íslendingabók NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumber |
dual (in pronouns)
ⓘ
plural ⓘ singular ⓘ |
| influenced |
English vocabulary
ⓘ
Norman toponymy ⓘ Scottish Gaelic toponymy ⓘ |
| ISO639-2 | non ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Germanic ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
|
| languageSubbranch | North Germanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Denmark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Faroe Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenland NERFINISHED ⓘ Iceland NERFINISHED ⓘ Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandinavia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ Viking Age settlements in Ireland ⓘ Viking Age settlements in Normandy ⓘ Viking Age settlements in the British Isles ⓘ Viking Age settlements in the North Atlantic ⓘ |
| status | extinct language ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Germanic language
ⓘ
Old Scandinavian language ⓘ |
| timeEnd | circa 14th century ⓘ |
| timeStart | circa 8th century ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Middle Ages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Viking Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
runic alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Old Norse language Description of subject: Old Norse was the North Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age and is the ancestor of modern Scandinavian languages like Icelandic and Norwegian.
Referenced by (203)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.