(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
(n.) The Norse language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(2) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(3) His favourite book is The Poetic Edda, a landmark collection of Old Norse poetry.
(4) (2) The Knowledge inbox overflowed with various further Sportings and Football Clubs from around this wide footballing world of ours and a few examples that highlight the difficulty of classifying exactly what constitutes 'non-native' (should Hibernian, derived from the Roman name for Ireland, count for example, or 'Rovers, which is apparently derived from Norse?).
(5) Whole settlements, complete with livestock could have retreated to these brochs at times of Norse attacks from the sea.
(6) In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was an enormous ash tree that harboured all the life in the universe.
(7) Cloud and hosting services of industry giants like Amazon and GoDaddy are being used to launch the attacks, Norse’s research indicates.
(8) Byatt was speaking at the launch of her new book, a retelling of the Norse Ragnarok myth, in which, after a succession of natural disasters, the world ends: a story she has found compelling since her childhood during the war.
(9) Security consultants the Guardian contacted on Norse’s claims aren’t entirely sure there is enough proof of Iranian involvement.
(10) It marked the end of the Norse rule in Scotland – and the victory is commemorated each year at the Largs Viking Festival.
(11) But Norse believes it has enough evidence to substantiate its claims, which it will soon detail in full.
(12) In its own research, Norse set up fake systems that appeared to belong to businesses and critical infrastructure providers that would have proven attractive to attackers.
(13) The author Joanne Harris, whose new novel The Gospel of Loki is set in the world of Norse mythology, also called Nordby's discovery "very, very interesting".
(14) Kinship is largely due to local drift rather than Norse admixture, the estimate of which is obscured by drift and appears highly unreliable.
(15) ‘The groups are allowed to operate on financial crimes...’ Rather than large, singular groups of digital spies, Iran has quietly built up a secret, disparate army of “mercenaries”, each separate from one another but with similar aims, according to the authors of the report, which will be published soon by Silicon Valley security company Norse.
(16) Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage (£1.49 + IAP) Icebreaker is a puzzle-action game with a viking theme, tasking you with freeing Norse warriors by solving 140 physics-puzzle levels.
(17) Loosely based on the legendary saga of the Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok , Vikings has moments of surprising historical clarity mixed up with a lot of HBO-style sex, mainly between Lothbrok and his wife Lagertha.
(18) "Banks don't cure disease", declared one gentle placard; "Science is more useful than duck islands" and "Ancient Norse is not a luxury," said others.
(19) To assess the temporal and spatial variation of one form of oral tori, palatine torus, observations were made on all available Greenlandic Norse skeletons, as well as on samples of medieval Icelanders and Norwegians.
(20) The figure for Alan Taylor's film, which once again stars Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god of thunder, suggests the movie is well on the way to a global debut of at least $200m when it debuts in North America and China next weekend.
Valhalla
Definition:
(n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
(n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re not going to insist on a black man being cast in Valhalla Rising any more than we would insist on a woman being cast in The Shawshank Redemption.
(2) And Only God Forgives is dedicated to Argentinian director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose 1970 acid-western-cum-vision-quest El Topo offered the direct inspiration for Valhalla Rising.
(3) Those who encountered Refn through his hyper-stylised LA thriller Drive might bridle at Only God Forgives, whose fugue-state narrative style, amnesiac and futureless, has more in common with Valhalla Rising, the hallucinatory but only intermittently engaging Viking movie he made before Drive (though parts of it were magnificent, including Gary Lewis's Scottish pagan talking of the barbaric Christians: "They eat their own god; eat his flesh, drink his blood.
(4) Describing her feelings on being appointed the first female editor of the New York Times , Jill Abramson said it was as if she had arrived at Valhalla.
(5) The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals.
(6) At half past one, ribbons and streamers of pearly light were tossed down from Valhalla and glowed over the bay.
(7) In our experience over a 10-year period at Westchester County Medical Center (Valhalla, NY), we diagnosed 11 left atrial myxomas and three primary cardiac malignancies in ten females and four males, aged 18-74 years.
(8) The resistance (Valhalla equations) and skinfold methods showed the narrowest 95 per cent limits of agreement, when compared with the deuterium dilution technique, while the weight and height equations showed the widest limits of agreement.
(9) Abramson, a former New York Times Washington bureau chief and investigative reporter who has been managing editor since 2003, said being appointed editor of the title was like "ascending to Valhalla".
(10) The Jackson, Pollock, and Ward SKF equation and the manufacturer's equations for BIA (Valhalla) and NIR (Futrex-5000) were used.
(11) With these two objectives, we compared the prediction of minimal weight (MW) among 57 interscholastic wrestlers using three anthropometric methods (skinfolds (SF) and two skeletal dimensions equations) and three BIA systems (Berkeley Medical Research (BMR), RJL, and Valhalla (VAL].
(12) He has joined Gandhi and Martin Luther King in political Valhalla.
(13) DNA typing was performed by standard techniques using purchased DNA probes (Lifecodes Corp, Valhalla, New York).
(14) Refn's films look like nobody else's (although, admittedly, 2009's Valhalla Rising was pretty Malick-like).
(15) Nux is, in fact, a suicide bomber of sorts, whose worship of the great wheezy leader, Immortan Joe (the movie is set in a ravaged post-apocalyptic future 45 years hence), means he dreams only of a “historic death” in which he will reach Valhalla through an act of homicidal martyrdom.
(16) Miliband’s ascent to the Labour leadership in 2010 appeared to give him some hope of achieving what he once described as “a socialist Valhalla” in Britain.
(17) It is concluded that in this population, the resistance (Valhalla equations) and the skinfold thickness methods were the best predictors of body composition as measured by deuterium dilution.