![]() Old West Norse and Old East Norse formed a dialect continuum, with no clear geographical boundary between them. Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse or Old West Nordic (often referred to as Old Norse ), Old East Norse or Old East Nordic, and Old Gutnish. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid-to-late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the consolidation of Scandinavian kingdoms from about the 8th to the 15th centuries. ![]() Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. ![]()
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