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Tyrker (or Tyrkir) is a
character mentioned in the
Norse Saga of the Greenlanders. He
accompanied Leif on his
voyage of
discovery around the year 1000...
- grå, hot shot or lakridsshot, in
Sweden as lakritsshot, and in
Norway as
tyrker, små grå or lakrisshot.
Tyrkisk peber is hygroscopic, and if left in an...
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Perker Denmark Arabs,
Middle Eastern Portmanteau of "****r" (Persian) and "
tyrker" (Turk). The use of it is
commonly used
towards Middle Eastern immigrants...
- brothers,
whose names were
Thorstein and Thorvald, and a sister, Freydís.
Tyrker, one of Erik's thralls, had been
specially trusted to keep
charge of Erik's...
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Bauld on the
northern tip of Newfoundland,
where one day his
foster father Tyrker was
found drunk, on what the saga
describes as "wine-berries." Squashberries...
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winter was
described as mild, not freezing. One day an old
family servant,
Tyrker, went
missing and was
found mumbling to himself. He
eventually explained...
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faking something. Norway: In
Norwegian is used the
expression "Sint som en
tyrker"
which means "angry as a Turk". Romania: In
Romanian language it is common...
