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Vestmenn (Westmen in English) was the Old
Norse word for the
Gaels of
Ireland and Britain,
especially Ireland and Scotland.
Vestmannaeyjar in
Iceland and...
- The
islands got
their name from that event, with
westmen (Old Norse:
vestmenn)
being a name that the Nor**** used for the Irish. Ingólfur was said to...
- The
islands got
their name from that event, with
westmen (Old Norse:
vestmenn)
being a name that the Nor**** used for the Irish. Ingólfr was said to...
- (homestead of the Eastmen).[citation needed] In contrast, they
called Gaels Vestmenn (West-men) (see
Vestmannaeyjar and Vestmanna).[citation needed]
Other terms...
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Gaels who had been
captured into
slavery by Nor****. The Old
Norse word
Vestmenn,
literally "Westmen", was
applied to the
Celts of
Britain and Ireland,...
- harbour.
Abducted from the
north of Ireland, the
slaves were
called westmen (
Vestmenn), as
before discovering Iceland,
Ireland was the most
western part of the...
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tribe that
lived to the west of Uppland) (not to be
confused with the
Vestmenn – Old
Norse word for the
Gaels of
Ireland and Britain)
Virdar (in Småland)...
- as Milesian, are not as
often used. An Old
Norse name for the
Gaels was
Vestmenn (meaning "Westmen", due to
inhabiting the
Western fringes of Europe). Informally...
- and
published by a schoolteacher, to whom he
talked in his old age. The
Vestmenn ("West Men" in Old Norse,
referring to the Irish) were a
group of Irish...
- Orkney's, Faroe's and
Iceland were said to be Norse–Gaels,
referred to as
Vestmenn. When
Scandinavians first set foot on
these islands they
found a community...
