How to Say “Hunter” in Old Norse
The Old Norse word for hunter is veiðimaðr. The term refers to a person who hunts animals.
About Old Norse
Old Norse was the language of Scandinavia and its settlements in the Viking Age and the centuries after, roughly from the 8th to the 14th century. It is the language of the Icelandic sagas and the Eddas, and guides here that ask how to say something "in Viking" mean Old Norse. It is no longer spoken as a native language. Its descendants are Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, and Icelandic has changed least.
Old Norse was first written in runes (the 16-letter Younger Futhark) and later in the Latin alphabet with extra letters such as þ (the th in "thin"), ð (the th in "this") and æ. How it sounded is a scholarly reconstruction, so expect different spellings of the same word from guide to guide.
| Family | Indo-European, North Germanic |
|---|---|
| Period | about the 8th to the 14th century |
| Descendants | Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish |
| Script | runes (Younger Futhark), later the Latin alphabet |
| Code | non (ISO 639-3) |
Classification: Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
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