Norse

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Norse is a demonym for Norsemen, a Medieval North Germanic ethnolinguistic group ancestral to modern Scandinavians, defined as speakers of Old Norse from about the 9th to the 13th centuries.

Norse may also refer to:

Culture and religion

• Norse mythology
• Norse paganism
• Norse art
• Norse activity in the British Isles
• Vikings

Language

• Proto-Norse language, the Germanic language predecessor of Old Norse
• Old Norse, a North Germanic language spoken in Scandinavia and areas under Scandinavian influence from c. 800 AD to c. 1300 AD
  • Old West Norse, the western dialect of Old Norse, spoken in Norway and areas under Norwegian influence
    • Greenlandic Norse
    • Norn language, an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in Shetland and Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and in Caithness
  • Old East Norse, the eastern dialect of Old Norse, spoken in Denmark, Sweden and areas under their influence

Location

• Norse, Texas, a ghost town founded by Nordic pioneers
• Nordic countries
• Scandinavia

Companies

• Norse Atlantic Airways, a Norwegian airline
• Norse Projects, a Danish clothing brand

Sport

• Luther College Norse, the intercollegiate athletic program of Luther College
• Mesabi Range Norse, the intercollegiate athletic program of Mesabi Range College
• Northern Kentucky Norse, the intercollegiate athletic program of Northern Kentucky University

Other uses

• Harold Norse (1916–2009), American poet
• NORSE, acronym for new-onset refractory status epilepticus
• Norse (neuron simulator), a simulation environment for biological neurons; see Spiking neural network § SNN simulation

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Norse
• Nordic (disambiguation)
• Norsca, a fictional land in the Warhammer Fantasy game setting