Old Icelandic

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Old Icelandic is the medieval North Germanic language variety spoken and written in Iceland, best known as the primary language of the Icelandic sagas and much of Old Norse literature.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Old West Norse 8
Old Icelandic canonical 5
Old Norse in Iceland 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf North Germanic language
historical language
medieval language
closelyRelatedTo Old Faroese
linked to: Faroese language

Old Norwegian
developedFrom Old Norse
linked to: Norse

Proto-Norse
followedBy Modern Icelandic
hasCanonicalText Fornaldarsögur
linked to: Norse sagas

Konungasögur
linked to: Heimskringla

Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
law codes such as Grágás
Íslendingasögur
hasGrammaticalFeature dual pronouns
four grammatical cases
rich inflectional morphology
strong and weak verb classes
three grammatical genders
hasISO639-3Code isl (for its direct descendant Modern Icelandic)
influenced Modern Icelandic
languageFamily Germanic
Indo-European
North Germanic
partOf Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
North Germanic languages
preservedIn medieval Icelandic manuscripts
primarySourceFor study of Germanic philology
study of Old Norse mythology
study of medieval Scandinavian history
region Iceland
spokenIn medieval Iceland
standardVarietyOf Old Norse in Iceland
linked to: Old Icelandic
subclassOf Old Norse
linked to: Norse

West Norse
linked to: Norse
timePeriod circa 12th century to 16th century
usedIn Eddic poetry
linked to: Poetic Edda

Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas

Old Norse literature
skaldic poetry
writingSystem Latin alphabet
runic alphabet
writtenIn medieval Iceland

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Gutnish distinctFrom Old Icelandic
Greenlandic Norse language Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
Proto-Germanic ancestorOf Old Norse languages
linked to: Old Icelandic
Old East Norse contrastedWith Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
Old Norwegian developedFrom Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
Old Norwegian closelyRelatedTo Old Icelandic
Proto-Norse successor Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
Gjallarhorn hasNameOrigin Old Norse language
linked to: Old Icelandic
Old Icelandic standardVarietyOf Old Norse in Iceland
linked to: Old Icelandic
Laxdæla saga language Old Icelandic
Icelandic ancestor Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
West Scandinavian languages historicallyIncludes Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
West Scandinavian languages hasAncestralLanguage Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
Middle Norwegian developedFrom Old West Norse
linked to: Old Icelandic
Njáls saga language Old Icelandic