Old Norse is the language of the Vikings, sagas, runes, eddic and skaldic poetry, and still spoken by Icelanders today in a modern style.
The Viking Age Old Norse language is the source of many English words and the parent of the modern Scandinavian languages: Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian.
Vikings sailed over one-third the globe and were the first northern Europeans to harness the technology of long-distance seafaring. Wherever they went, Vikings told their myths and legends, tales that are the basis of Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings and Wagner’s Ring Cycle.