Old Danish
Proper noun
  1. Old East Norse dialect (also sometimes considered a separate language, several other names are used as well) as spoken from the 9th to 11th centuries in Denmark
    • 2013, Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera, The Germanic Languages, Routledge ISBN 9781317799580, page 6
      The history of the Danish language falls into three major periods: Old Danish (c. 800—c.1100), corresponding roughly to the Viking Age; Middle Danish (c.1100— c.1525), corresponding to the Middle Ages; and Modern Danish (after c.1525), the period after the Reformation and up to modern times.
  2. Middle Danish
Synonyms
  • (9th to 11th centuries) Runic Danish, Runic Swedish, Old East Norse



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