*”norsemen” refers to the group of people who spoke what is now called the “old norse language” between the 700s and 1000s*
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(the ‘language’ belongs to the ‘north germanic branch’ of the ‘indo-european languages’, and is the earlier form of ‘modern scandinavian languages’)
(“norseman” means “man from the north” and applied primarily to old norse-speaking tribes living in ‘southern’ and ‘central’ scandinavia)
(in history, “norse” or “norseman” could be any person from ‘scandinavia’, even though ‘norway’, ‘denmark’, and ‘sweden’ were different sets of people by the ‘middle ages’)
(typically the term norse refers to the ‘west norse’, meaning mainly ‘norwegians’ when reading about settlements in and colonization of ‘america’, ‘normandy’, ‘iceland’, ‘greenland’, ‘ireland’, ‘scotland’, ‘wales’, ‘shetland’, ‘orkney’, ‘the hebrides’, the ‘faroe islands’, and ‘mann’)
(in some other historical references, term may also refer to the ‘east norse’, meaning mainly ‘danes’ and ‘swedes’, for instance, cnut’s empire and swedes adventures ‘east’)
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(the ‘norse scandinavians’ established states and settlements in
‘england’,
‘scotland’,
‘iceland’,
‘wales’,
the ‘faroe Islands’,
‘finland’,
‘ireland’,
‘russia’,
‘greenland’,
‘france’,
‘belgium’,
‘ukraine’,
‘estonia’,
‘latvia’,
‘lithuania’,
‘germany’,
‘poland’
‘canada’
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥