• Source: Vestmenn

Vestmenn (Westmen in English) was the Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain, especially Ireland and Scotland. Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland and Vestmanna in the Faroe Islands take their names from it. The Norse who settled in Scotland and Ireland, known now as the "Norse–Gaels", called themselves Austmenn "Eastmen", i.e. people who had come from the East (Scandinavia).




See also


Austmenn
Norsemen
Rus

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ingólfr Arnarson
• Vestmenn
• Ingólfr Arnarson
• Norse–Gaels
• Vestmannaeyjar
• Settlement of Iceland
• List of early Germanic peoples
• Gaels
• List of slaves
• Culdees
• List of Old Norse exonyms