Does anyone know what the Norsemen called themselves, for starters?
Going to nag the crap out of any Roman experts too.
Going to nag the crap out of any Roman experts too.
It depended either from their place of origin or their familial relations, or they adopted the name foreigners gave them when they settled in their lands (most notably, Normans which called themselves as such in the matter of one to two generations)Does anyone know what the Norsemen called themselves, for starters?
True, but that's a generic name used in Old Icelandic Norse for any Scandinavian not from Iceland, as well with the more precise meaning of Norwegian.In the Old Norse language, the term norrœnir menn (northern men)
It depends from where they came from, I guess, for anything non-generic : in modern Sweden only, you had three big groups, the Sviar, the Gautar and the Gutr.Both? Exonym I know, I'm looking for the endonym they used among themselves for themselves, if anyone knows it.