Dialect Quote by Donal Logue

In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse,…

— Larry Trask

“The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within…

— Mark Kurlansky

The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.

— Travis Fimmel

Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in…

— Gerard Butler

“Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They…

— Jim Butcher

“The folk of a Celtic type, whether pre-Celtic, Celtic, or Norse, have all spoken a Celtic language and exhibit the same old Celtic characteristics—vanity,…

— J.A. Macculloch

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

— Tanushree Dutta

Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

— Paulo Coelho

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

— Charlie Munger

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred…

— Robert E. Howard

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat