Old Scandinavian or Old Norse was a North Germanic language spoken by the Germanic inhabitants of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Denmark. They are also known as the Vikings in the history and the word itself derives from Old Norse víkingr meaning ‘a creek-dweller’, and hence ‘pirate’ (Barber, 1994:128). After the 9th century the Old Scandinavian language broke up into two branches: Western Scandinavian including Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, and Eastern Scandinavian consisting of Danish and Swedish. Today, of the modern Scandinavian languages Icelandic shows the most similarities to Old Scandinavian. (1) The Viking Age in the history of English started near the end of the Old English period and is regarded as the third foreign influence on English... (Introduction)