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Old Stone Age

(Encyclopedia)Old Stone Age: see Paleolithic period. ...

Old Style dates

(Encyclopedia)Old Style dates: see calendar.

old-age pension

(Encyclopedia)old-age pension: see pension; social security. ...

Old Church Slavonic

(Encyclopedia)Old Church Slavonic: see Church Slavonic. ...

Bugge, Sophus

(Encyclopedia)Bugge, Sophus sōˈfo͝os bo͞oˈgə [key], 1833–1907, Norwegian philologist. He made a notable edition of the Old Norse runes, and his was the first critical edition (1881–89; 2d series 1896) of ...

Wayland Smith

(Encyclopedia)Wayland Smith, in English folklore, a skillful blacksmith and great armor maker, whose forge was near the White Horse (Oxfordshire). He appears in the Old English Beowulf and Deor and in Sir Walter Sc...

Greek literature, ancient

(Encyclopedia)Greek literature, ancient, the writings of the ancient Greeks. The Greek Isles are recognized as the birthplace of Western intellectual life. The next period of Greek literature reached its zenith i...

Magnusson, Finnur

(Encyclopedia)Magnusson, Finnur mägˈno͞osôn [key], 1781–1847, Icelandic archaeologist and scholar. Educated at the Univ. of Copenhagen, he was appointed (1815) professor of Northern literature and mythology ...

Snorri Sturluson

(Encyclopedia)Snorri Sturluson or Sturleson snôrˈrē stürˈlüsôn, –lĕsôn [key], 1178–1241, Icelandic chieftain, historian, critic, and saga teller, the leading figure in medieval Norse literature. He was...

Leif Ericsson

(Encyclopedia)Leif Ericsson lēf ĕrˈĭksən [key], Old Norse Leifr Eiriksson, fl. a.d. 999–1000, Norse discoverer of America, b. probably in Iceland; son of Eric the Red. He spent his youth in Greenland and in ...