Names that speakers of Old Norse assigned to foreign places and peoples.
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The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians.
As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms.
Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or Byzantine chronicles.
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