Languages are like identity, you want people to know about your identity, they can call your name and even write it but you wouldn’t let them own it. Same like your language, you know people can speak it, write and read in it but they can’t call it their own. It is a very weird concept but our daily lingo is something that is a part of our culture and we can’t deny loving it in a peculiar yet familiar way. Since ages, people feel a sense of belonging to the words they speak. In Scandinavian region, Germanic languages were spoken for centuries and they all constantly evolved.
One such language is Old Norse. Evolved from Proto-Norse language, we can trace back this language’s origin to the 8th or 9th century whereas the written pieces of Old Norse were only found from the 15th century. The Old Norse language is divided into three main dialects:
Old West Norse
Old East Norse
Old Gutnish
All these dialects are commonly shared by countries including Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. In fact, today’s Icelandic is considered the closest to Old Norse. According to linguists, Old Norse has a strong influence on many other languages including Russian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Latvian, Finnish and English.