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Old Danish en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. Old East Norse dialect (also sometimes considered a separate language, several other names are used as well) as spoken from the 9th to 11th centuries in Denmark
    • A specimen of Old Danish of the 10th century, being the Runic inscriptions at Jellinge in Jutland, on the tumulus of king Gorm the Old, and his consort Thyre, as interpreted by Professor Finn Magnusen. 1839, Joseph Bosworth, Scandinavian Literature: With Short Chronological Specimens of the Old Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and a Notice of the Dalecarlian and Ferroe Dialects, page 9:
    • Historically, the Danish language may be divided into three periods: Old Danish (c. 800–1100) spans the Viking Age, Middle Danish (c. 1100–1500) was the language of the late Middle Ages, and Modern Danish covers the time from around the Reformation (and the first translation of the Bible) to the present. 2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 279:
    • The history of the Danish language falls into three major periods: Old Danish (c. 800—c.1100), corresponding roughly to the Viking Age; Middle Danish (c.1100— c.1525), corresponding to the Middle Ages; and Modern Danish (after c.1525), the period after the Reformation and up to modern times. 2013, Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera, The Germanic Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, page 6:
    • Around 1100-1200 AD, Danish became a distinctive language with a distinctive pronunciation. The period from 800-1100 AD is called Old Danish or Runic Danish, as our knowledge of the language is primarily based on runic inscriptions. 2007, Nete Schmidt, Beginner's Danish, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 2:
  2. Middle Danish
    • In preparation for creating a dictionary of Old Danish (Gammeldansk Ordbog), [The Danish Society for Language and Literature] has begun to compile a comprehensive database (Gammeldansk Seddelsamling). 2016, Ditlev Tamm, Helle Vogt, The Danish Medieval Laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • There are several texts in East Norse – Old Swedish (fornsvenska, c. 1225–1526) and Old Danish (gammeldansk, c. 1100–1515) – that mention or describe Muslims and their religion. 2015, Cordelia Heß, Jonathan Adams, Fear and Loathing in the North: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN:

Coordinates

Middle Danish · Modern Danish

Relateds

Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Danish terms

Synonyms

Runic Danish (9th to 11th centuries) · Runic Swedish (9th to 11th centuries) · Old East Norse (9th to 11th centuries)

Translations (4)

ko 고대 덴마크어 (9th to 11th centuries) · da runedansk (9th to 11th centuries) · da olddansk (9th to 11th centuries) · fr vieux danois (9th to 11th centuries)