One explanation is that the word derives from the old Norse word Beserker. A class of ancient worriers who worked themselves into a frenzy before battle and fought with insane fury. Also from the linked words Ber and Serkr meaning a 'bear shirt or a worrier clothed in a bear skin'
Marcus is an old Roman word, and is another name for Mars, the Roman god of war. The Norse god of war was Thor.
Old Norse and/or Icelandic.
From an early Dutch word 'snacchen' or 'snakken' There is also an old Norse word 'snaka' - to seize or grasp
The word was Valhalla. Vaguely similar to heaven.
The word birth is an English word taken from the Old Norse word byrth meaning to bear.
The Norse word for archer is "bogi" or "skytta."
The Norse word for farmer is "bóndi."
The Norse word for song is "ljóð" or "kvæði."
The word for grandfather in Old Norse is "afi."
veiðimaðr is old Norse for huntsman
The Old English/Norse word and the Modern English word are one in the same; hell=hell.
Norse is a word referring to the Scandinavian races.
One explanation is that the word derives from the old Norse word Beserker. A class of ancient worriers who worked themselves into a frenzy before battle and fought with insane fury. Also from the linked words Ber and Serkr meaning a 'bear shirt or a worrier clothed in a bear skin'
the word 'Norse' would be capitalised, but not 'mythology'.
The Vikings spoke Old Norse and the Old Norse word for beast is dýr.
The old Norse is 'mara incubus', which refers to an evil spirit visiting people whilst they are asleep