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Northman

noun

(pl. Northmen)

An inhabitant of Scandinavia. Synonyms: Norse, Scandinavian.

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"Northman" Quotes from Famous Books

... scattered broadcast by a long series of extravagant Northmen who had daringly driven their prows into every attractive inlet. So on the spiritual side the Norman had really in England little conquest to make. The genius of Canute, one of the greatest of English kings and a Northman, had paved the road for William the Conqueror. It was open to William Blake, surely an indubitable Englishman, to establish the English national motto: "The Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom." Certainly it is a motto that can only be ...

— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis

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... maimed limb, when the hour had come for a rush to close quarters, followed Reid and Muter over the breastwork at the end of the serai of Kissengunge. Proud, yet their pride dashed by sadness, must be the soldiering memories of this stout northman, erstwhile a front rank man in the old Ross-shire Buffs, a regiment ever true to its noble Celtic motto of Cuidichn Rhi. At Kooshab, in the short, but brilliant Persian War, he fought in the same field where ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

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Words linked to "Northman" : berserk, European, Viking, berserker, Scandinavia