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ˈNorseman
[f. Norse a.]
A Norwegian. Also, any native or inhabitant of viking-age Scandinavia.
1817Scott Harold i. i, Count Witikind..roved with his Norsemen the land and the main. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 205 Writing by Runes has some air of being original among the Norsemen. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 792/2 The first Danish Norsemen made their appearance on the eastern and southern coasts of England in 787. Ibid. 793/2 The Swedish Norsemen directed their expeditions chiefly against the eastern coasts of the Baltic. 1874R. Cowie Shetland (ed. 2) 10 When the nautical daring..had become so much developed in the Norsemen. 1935Chambers's Encycl. VII. 527/2 Northmen, or Norsemen, were the sea-rovers who came from the north—Denmark, Norway, Sweden. 1943G. Vernadsky Anc. Russia vii. iii. 273 It seems highly probable that..a band of Norsemen—more exactly, of Swedes—established their control over the lower Don and Azov area. 1948Oxf. Jun. Encycl. I. 137/1 Danes. These are a Scandinavian people, as are their neighbours the Swedes..and Norwegians... The ancestors of all three were the Norsemen or Vikings. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings iv. iii. 395 Ireland was different. The Norsemen (part Danes, part Norwegians) had established a number of important trading towns in the southern half of the island. 1970Foote & Wilson Viking Achievement i. 14 Saxon political influence went hand in hand with Saxon efforts to convert the Danes to Christianity. The archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen..was intended as a missionary outpost with prime responsibility for bringing the heathen Norsemen to the true faith. |