Beyond personal names, the Vikings also commonly named settlements based on the local landscape, such as Langthwaite (“long clearing”), Selby (“village with ...

Place names derived from the Old Norse words for landscape features and other descriptions ; þorp, village, small settlement, Torp (Denmark), Thorpe (Yorks), ...

Kalmar · Khortytsia · Kilmainham · Kinsarvik · Kirkwall · Kongsgård · Kvalsund (Herøy) · Kvenland ...

This name generator will generate 10 random Viking town names. Although Vikings managed to reach North Africa, parts of Asia, Greenland, and even further, ...

List of cities ; 1, Nidaros, Capital of Norway's medieval Christian kings, modern-day Trondheim ; 2, Uppsala, Fourth most populous city in Sweden ; 3, Haithabu ...

They often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms.

On these pages you can find out about the names the Vikings gave to the places in which they settled down in the East Midlands.

4 мар. 2019 г. · heim (home, city, homestead) · drake/drage (dragon) · skog (forest, wood) · myr (marsh) · utmark (unhabited land) · dal (valley) · svart (black) myrk/ ...

Here are some more words the Vikings often used: Torp (thorpe), a secondary settlement - outlying farm. Seter (-set), mountain pasture, shielding.

Many Scandinavian words were borrowed into Gaelic as loanwords and were then used to create place names by Gaelic speakers. Examples are Gaelic geodha: gully, ...