ROUND 1: HISTORY

The Old Norse word ‘slod’ (track, trail) eventually led to the creation of which current English word?

• Sleuth

• Slope

• Sled

• Scale

What is the English borrowing for the Old Norse word "þrift"?

• Thrift

• Drift

• Shift

• Gift

The Swedish word poäng, meaning ‘point’, was borrowed from which language?

• German

• French

• Turkish

• Danish

The change of meaning of ‘dog’ from a specific breed to any sort of breed is an example of:

• Semantic narrowing

• Analogical change

• Semantic widening

• Melioration

 ‘Tuesday’ is named after which old Norse god?

• Tyr

• Thor

• Njordr

• Odin

What is NOT a part of Grimm's Law?

• voiceless stops become voiced stops

• voiced aspirated stops become fricatives or voiced stops

• voiceless stops become voiceless fricatives

• voiced stops become voiceless stops

Which language does the work ‘kayak’ originate from?

• Norwegian

• Halkomelem

• Ojibwe

• Greenlandic

Danish, Swedish, and English all share the same word origin for ‘window’. However, Swedish uses a very different word: ‘fönster’. Which language does this originate from?

• Gothic

• Classical Greek

• Breton

• Latin

Where was Norn once spoken?

• Germany

• Orkney and Shetland

• Faroe Islands

• Buchanan Tower

Which English city/town once had the Norse name Jórvík?

• Ipswich

• York

• Wells

• Yeovil