Elskan, elskan mín, also ástin/ástin mín = My love, my darling.
From Old Norse friðill (“lover, gallant”), from Proto-Germanic *fridilaz.
“hjarta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From Old Norse kvæna, from kván (“wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.
Verb. Jag saknar dig. I miss you. Cykeln saknar ett hjul.
There are three ways to express likeness or love in Norwegian: Jeg liker deg, Jeg er glad i deg, Jeg elsker deg. Apparently the first one is the weakest one (jeg liker deg/ham/hun) but also the one used the most.
Most of what we know about women warriors in the Viking Age comes from literary works, including the romantic sagas Saxo called upon as some of his sources. Female warriors known as “Valkyries,” who may have been based on shieldmaidens, are certainly an important part of Old Norse literature.
A shield-maiden (Old Norse: skjaldmær [ˈskjɑldˌmɛːz̠]) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology.
There is no higher compliment in Old Norse than to call a man or woman a 'drengr,' which in the sagas implies both reckless courage and a code of fair play. ...
Word History: The English word husband, even though it is a basic kinship term, is not a native English word. It comes ultimately from the Old Norse word hūsbōndi, meaning "master of a house," which was borrowed into Old English as hūsbōnda.
Noun. drengr m (genitive drengs, plural drengir) a valiant, gallant, chivalrous man. lad, youth, a boy. one who is bold, reckless, or inexperienced.
Áki is probably a diminutive of *ani, an unrecorded word related to Old Norse ái 'great-grandfather'. The name is frequent in Denmark both independently and in place-names and likely originated in the Danish islands.
Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”), most renowned of the Norse goddesses, who was the sister and female counterpart of Freyr and was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death.
Ylva (She-wolf, female Wolf) is an old Swedish female given name. It is the female form of the masculine given name Ulf and is one of the earliest names to appear in documents.
Yol (or jól) is a pagan season of feast, celebrating the coming of the new year and the sun's return. It takes place during midwinter, about the same time as Christians celebrate Christmas. The word is a cognate with the English word yule, and is rendered jul in modern Scandinavian languages.
The word bairn comes from the Old Norse barn, principally meaning “child, a son or daughter.” Through the years, it has been spelled in various ways.
Vikings didn't have family names. Instead, boys and girls usually took their father's, or sometimes mother's, first name as a surname and added “son” or “dottir” (daughter).
Valkyrie, also spelled Walkyrie, Old Norse Valkyrja (“Chooser of the Slain”), in Norse mythology, any of a group of maidens who served the god Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla.
war·rior·ess. |ərə̇s. plural -es. : a female warrior.
Lagertha. Thanks to Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, we know of a legendary female Viking known as either Lagertha or Ladgerda. This incredible woman was part of a larger group of female warriors who volunteered to help renowned hero Ragnar Lothbrok avenge his grandfather's death.
Kjæreste / Kjæresten
Norwegians don't have words for boyfriend and girlfriend; instead, the words are combined into 'Kjæreste' (Girlfriend/boyfriend or 'Kjæresten' (The girlfriend/boyfriend).
'Kärlek,' is the Swedish word for love. If you think you've found “the one,” you can tell them 'du är mitt livs kärlek.