Norsenessn.
/ˈnɔːsnəs/, U.S. /ˈnɔrsnəs/ A quality or condition associated with the Norse.
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Scandinavianism1864
Norseness1961
1961 Listener 7 Sept. 363/3 Ibsen's characters are always about to take flight into fantasy but their manner, their stubborn Norseness, holds them fast in a two-dimensional theatre.
1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. iv. 264 The adoption of Slavonic customs had quietly eroded the Norseness of the Rus.
1988 E. Searle Predatory Kinship & Creation Norman Power xi. 132 The wife whose Norseness and high status made her an acceptable equal in the eyes of the chieftains was a woman whose children commanded paternal recognition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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