Post by Jonathan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
In English the closest words we have are grit, guts, and resilience. Also the name of a fun dumb action movie where a Finnish dude finds ways to creatively kill a lot of Nazis.
That explains it. Finnish is not «Norse»
My apologies if I’m mistaken but I think Norse is generally used to refer to Nordic languages in general. Likewise, the terms “Norsemen” and “Northmen” are/were used to refer to the Nordic people in general (which would stretch as far as Iceland and the Faroe Islands as well as the early Normans), n
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