Definitions for old norse

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Old′ Norse′(n.)

  1. the North Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia.

    Category: Peoples

    Ref: Abbr.: ON 3

Origin of Old Norse:

1835–45

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Old Norse(noun)

    the extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350

Wiktionary

  1. Old Norse(ProperNoun)

    The language of Scandinavia before 1400 , the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic.


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