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- Vestmenn (Westmen in English) was the Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain, especially Ireland and Scotland. Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland and...
- The islands got their name from that event, with westmen (Old Norse: vestmenn) being a name that the Nor**** used for the Irish. Ingólfur was said to...
- (homestead of the Eastmen).[citation needed] In contrast, they called Gaels Vestmenn (West-men) (see Vestmannaeyjar and Vestmanna).[citation needed] Other terms...
- Gaels who had been captured into slavery by Nor****. The Old Norse word Vestmenn, literally "Westmen", was applied to the Celts of Britain and Ireland,...
- The islands got their name from that event, with westmen (Old Norse: vestmenn) being a name that the Nor**** used for the Irish. Ingólfr was said to...
- as Milesian, are not as often used. An Old Norse name for the Gaels was Vestmenn (meaning "Westmen", due to inhabiting the Western fringes of Europe). Informally...
- tribe that lived to the west of Uppland) (not to be confused with the Vestmenn – Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain) Virdar (in Småland)...
- of the Wends". Slavic areas East from Lübeck. Vernisa Worms, Germany. vestmenn "Westmen", the Gaels of Ireland and Britain. Vikinglow, Wykynlo Wicklow...
- who lived and worked on the plantation of Mira Margaret Baird Vance. The Vestmenn ("West Men" in Old Norse, referring to the Irish) were a group of Irish...
- Orkney, Faroe's and Iceland were said to be Norse–Gaels, referred to as Vestmenn. When Scandinavians first set foot on these islands they found a community...