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'''Old Norse''' was the language spoken in the [[Nordic]] countries and in areas settled by the [[Vikings]] between c. AD 800 and AD 1300. In its written form it is remarkably similar to modern [[Icelandic]]. The Icelandic sagas, skaldic poems, and Eddas are all written in Old Norse. It survives today in southern areas of [[Greenland]] as a ceremonial language and has similar status to that of [[Latin]] in the Catholic church.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Old-Norse-language</ref>
'''Old Norse''' was the language spoken in the [[Nordic]] countries and in areas settled by the [[Vikings]] between c. AD 800 and AD 1300. In its written form it is remarkably similar to modern [[Icelandic]]. The Icelandic sagas, skaldic poems, and Eddas are all written in Old Norse. It survives today in southern areas of [[Greenland]] as a ceremonial language and has similar status to that of [[Latin]] in the Catholic church.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Old-Norse-language</ref>
It is the ancestor of the modern North Germanic languages such as the West Scandinavian Norwegian Nynorsk, Faroese and Icelandic (plus the now-extinct Greenlandic Norse and Norn), and the East Scandinavian Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmal and Swedish
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