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Halfdan the
Black (Old Norse:
Halfdanr Svarti; fl. c. 9th century) was a king of Vestfold. He
belonged to the
House of
Yngling and was the
father of Harald...
-
either caraway seeds or angelica. Its
potency has
earned it the
nickname svarti dauði ("Black Death").
Modern distilleries on
Iceland produce vodka (Reyka)...
- Óttarr
svarti ("Óttarr the Black") was an 11th-century
Icelandic skald. He was the
court poet
first of Óláfr
skautkonungr of Sweden, then of Óláfr Haraldsson...
- Emmae, do not
mention this. Even so, in a Knútsdrápa by the
skald Óttarr
svarti,
there is a
statement that Cnut was "of no
great age" when he
first went...
- 17th
centuries was
transferred to
other languages as a calque: Icelandic:
svarti dauði, German: der
schwarze Tod, and French: la mort noire. Previously,...
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Svartis Tunnel (Norwegian: Svartistunnelen) is a road
tunnel in Meløy Muni****lity in
Nordland county, Norway. The
tunnel is part of
Norwegian County...
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Tunnel 1991 8079 Bømlafjord
Tunnel 2000 7888
Eiksund Tunnel 2008 7765
Svartis Tunnel 1986 7615 Høyanger
Tunnel 1982 7543
Vallavik Tunnel 1985 7510 Åkrafjord...
- "Magnus
filius Olavi Duf". This
Latin text
corresponds to the Old
Norse svarti accorded to Óláfr by the thirteenth-century Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. Óláfr's...
- Guðrøðr Rǫgnvaldsson (died 1231), also
known as Guðrøðr Dond, was a thirteenth-century
ruler of the
Kingdom of the Isles. He was a
member of the Crovan...
- Heimskringla,
published by
Samuel Laing in 1844,
included a
verse by Óttarr
svarti, that
looks very
similar to the
nursery rhyme:
London Bridge is
broken down...
