I am from Norway in europe (where all the vikings lived)
its funny to see that the names the "Nords" use in morrowind is linked to Norwegian.

Examples:

Fjell = Mountain
Udyr = Monster
Frykte = Fear
Ben / bein = Bone
Stygg = Ugly
Stein = Rock


i dont remember many of the rest of the names in solstenheim right now but very very many is taken right out of the Norwegian language.

Hey taht's pretty interesting..anything else? I'm sure Solsthiem is filled with them..

well, depending on how you prnounce Skaal, it can sound like Skull...
that's all I found.

Skaal = Skål

That kind of means Cheers! As in two nords drinking mead ^_^

But i dont think that was what they meant with the village name....

Also,

"Berg" is synonymous to "fjell", mountain that is...

I am from Denmark, the TRUE home of the Viking a.k.a The NORDS..

Little info; the symbols on nordic swords and armour, Is called "Runes" and is the language of the nords!

They are immune to frost because up here in scandinavia its vulkING COLD!!!

True home of the Vikings kenned? It was WE who invaded england! You danish people mostly plundered southwards didnt you?! ^_^
Well we did that to.

But lets not start the "Whos best," argue.
We both did some damage on the world, it was the swedish that was lamest

By the way do you remember more words in solsthenheim thats scandinavian?

Sol - sten - heim = Sun - Stone - Home to think of it...

well, we also invaded england... And it was a danish viking that discovered America before Mr. Columbus did!! :bleh: And my daddy can beat your daddy!!

But no i cant recognice any more words, other than many of the names...

If there were found evidence of what u said, would USA belong to denmark then? :lol:

Lief Erikcsson is said to have discovered the US of A (more probably Canada) and Greenland is a case to consider. Ah, at what point in time does history replace a conqueror? Do the Brits still own Calais? Has Israel a right to lands it lost 2000 years before?

Don't go there. It will end in tears!

That was Eirik the Red, and it was Canada, in the year 1000.

Wasn't there some Monk or something that mapped out part of the North Eastern coast of North America?, I can't remember the name of the map but it is famous. Also, it was said that the monk used a type of kayak or boat made of Seal skin (I think). I can't remember if it was before or after Eirik, but IIRC it was before. Hmmm...

Oh yeah, and didn't he encounter Native Americans as well? I remember reading about how some Vikings or whoever would refer to Native Americans or something, but I can't remember, curses! <_<

Leif Erikson discovered Newfoundland and they lived there for the winter. Didn't like it, so they left. So technically, Die Vikings might be the true explorers. Think about it. going across a OCEAN in a longboat. No below deck, washroom was hanging your ass over the side.

Forgot to mention the berserkers in morrowind.

Berserkers in the vikings history was fearless vikings dressed in animal skin/clothing going full offense with little to no Armor. Many with poisoned weapons.

hundreds of them running screaming (looking as animals) against the enemy, in a frenzy. Many drank the blood of the fallens in battle to gain "strength"

Hence the expression "Going berserk!" (example in diablo 2 : LOD berserk skill of the barbarian)

What the "Viking Berserk" is famous for is the fact that they ate mushrooms(!!) before a battle... it would make them totally insane and act as wild beast. And the enemies would freak out when a viking losed an arm but continued as if nothing happenend.. B)

Ahhhh... The danish history... :bleh:

The berserkers in morrowind is just weak and naked. I think the makers really misunderstood the thing with them

oh, and DANISH history? so sad kenned... so sad

When seeing about Vikings on the Discovery channel why do they say "norway" all the time? But lets not start arguing shall we <_<

Well, i just think that it is funny that bethesda used the (danish :bleh: ) vikings as background for the Nord race...

And yeah, lets not argue... (although, remember when queen Margrethe the first of denmark ruled both norway and sweden? those were the days.. :lol: )

Well, in the UK we call the Vikings, those who came from Denmark. Those who came from Norway are called the Norsemen. They both invaded different parts of the UK, the Norsemen seldom going inland from the coast and most commonly in the north, the Vikings taking over part of the south.

IIRC the Normans (including Willaim the Conqueror) were of Scandinavian decent too.

All friends now though, especially over a cheap Norwegian glass of beer! :lol: :lol:

I've read and heard that the natives in Canada were referred to as "Skraelings" by Eric and the other vikings. Ah I still remember the days in AoK:AoC fighting off billions of club weilding maniacs on the Vinland scenario...Anyway yeah Skraelings is what I think they were called, always thought that was a cool name.

I love that mission. It's so hilarious to slaughter the natives. :blink:

Ok. So none of you know what you're talking about, but that's fine, 'cause I'll teach you.

Try reading some history before you all go "my country is SO much better than yours". Ok, I'm Swedish, but "our" Vikings didn't hang much in the old Brit'n so I'm not gonna say anything about that. But anyway, as I'm a student in the history of the english language I know that both the Norwegians and the Danish invaded England and such (as in the other countries around there) almost as much as the other and that for example both Norwegian and Danish have had a great impact on the English language.
And Norsemen does not mean Norwegians, it means people from "Norden" as in Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

There you go. Now shut up

//Malicia - being a wise-ass

Ah, but are there werewolves and spriggans in Sweden? :lol:

Curt Sibling as I have PM'd you, I don't mind silliness in posts that also have something worth saying as well. Please do not just post humorous asides in future.

Hmm. I think I said that I was not to get Sweden into that discussion whatsoever.
Anyway, how to one answear wheather there are such creatures in a country or not when it cannot be proven that they exist at all.

There are legends and folklore and such about them. Does that do it?

And how to the question relate to the topic?
Must have missed that.

Lief Erikcsson was from Norway not from Denmark. And mette is a norweagian name

I believe it waf Leif, not Lief. but then again, Age of Empires II might be wrong

Aj your right lad. Sverige is the land of vikings but that wasent in the topic. And yes mette is an norway name, do you think bethesda took names from norway in meaning?

Norway is best!!! I think it was Leif his name was. (Sorry for my english, but i am Norwegish and can't talk english so good)
And Norge is the land of vikings, i mean Norway.
and Magatsu, where in Norway are you from?

Ha elgen, the vikings at the mythology moved from norway to svergie landet av vikings.

Despite the real world Viking influences in Tamriel's Nords, their name comes from French. "Nord" means literally "north". It does make sence to call les gens du nord (the people of the north) a shortned Nords.

hmm, "north" so thats practically why they gave solthseim to the nords, because its up north?
(no, i am not joking)
although, their barbaric attitudes could relate to the vikings...could they?

Yes that sounds sure. But in the information about nords there stands that they are from the nothen part of Tamriel that will include soltsheim.

It was norway and denmark who was the greatest vikings sweden wasent so bigg that everybody belives. Sweden was a big country in the medival ages.

heia norge heia norge ole ole oleeeeee.

The Nords have Soltsheim because they conquered it, nobody "gave" it to them. If "they" refers to Bethseda, then yes.



The Nords, at the height of their power in Tamriel, actually controlled Morrowind. When the Chimer and Dwemer took it back they apparently did not bother to fight for the peice of ice that is Soltsheim.

Also I would not be surprised if the name Nords actually came from Aldmeris (elven language) since modern Cyrodiliic is a decendant of it, in the same way that (in the real world) modern Italian, French, Spanish, and Rumanian are decended from Latin. When the Nords arrived at Tamriel, they did so by landing on the north coast, and they came from a land further to the north (said land was more temperate in those times) so the Elves would have probably called them people of the north. That name eventually became just "Nords"

well, maybe, but their religion seems to come from a sort of Diablo 2 druid-ish standpoint, worshiping nature with their large stones(anyone who laughs at that is a perv )and their wolves and bears...its just like D2 druids, so either its ripping them off or its a common history fact....but whatever