From Olafur thick leg leather pants to ragnar leather pants, Viking nicknames are colorful and interesting.

In the Viking era, Scandinavians' nicknames may be insults or praises, from body parts or myths, from places or achievements, or from many other inspirations.

In addition to the boom in boxing, Mancini Jr., Carl Truth Williams and Smokinjo Fraser, modern nicknames, such as aluminum or Anne, seem to be unremarkable compared with some people.

Among the nicknames used by vikings to describe their contemporaries, although modern people may use nicknames out of emotion, this was not always the case in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.

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Eysteinn is a settler in Iceland and is used to drinking a lot of beer.

This is a woodcut of red Eric in a book of 1688 (Wikipedia shared resource).

Peterson's doctoral debate is insulated by some nicknames, and there are many examples of poetic or traditional nicknames in ancient Nordic literature.

Other poetic nicknames include: wilderness widow, limerick traveler, island day, quiet and affectionate.

Monarchs in the world usually have an informal title, such as kindness, greatness, terror or short stature. Some of the most expressive Nordic nicknames are reserved for non-royals.

The master's thesis and doctoral thesis made by Dr. Peterson can be read completely here, especially the nicknames of ancient Norwegians.

He received his Ph.D. in medieval Germanic studies from the University of Minnesota and is now a Scandinavian and German teaching researcher at Augustana College in Illinois.

He is a member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences.

Dr. Peterson wrote in his paper: "One of the best sources of nicknames for Icelandic settlers is the Book of Settlement in12nd century.

(Wikimedia Commons), the nicknames recorded by Dr. Peterson in his master's thesis and doctoral thesis include the blood axe of Elk King, olafur's thick legs, ragnar leather pants or long-haired breeches, and Bjorn's rich man.

Others include Sobyol acid drinks and Katie's silent or nagging noise.

These nicknames are not necessarily insulting, but many old Norwegians have harsh nicknames.

"Negative nicknames are common, ranging from sexual insults to unpleasant physical characteristics. Some nicknames involving private parts are also found in the corpus, which may be the most sensitive areas in insult and so on.

Dr. Peterson wrote in this paper, Finnuer? In the second part of his nickname list, Jónsson provided lists under two categories: * * *, * * * and * * *.

These nicknames include: other nicknames identified by Dr. Peterson in his thesis, which are not necessarily related to sex, but some of them are still insulting, including: "The most famous nickname is Crabbe, which was played by King Rafer Trigwasen. It seems that the early Scandinavians had some money. They attacked and settled in the British Isles. It was called Graggabai in old English and also appeared in Irish materials in15th century.

Others are iron knees, Will.

"Quite a few language forms are rare and' frozen' from ancient language forms, which is very interesting in itself, but the meaning of these words also gives modern people a window to understand the Scandinavian way of thinking in the Middle Ages.

Many of them must return to an inner joke or mention an incident we lost, because we can't always know the origin of a nickname, which gives modern readers a space to speculate or guess the real origin.

Close-up: The artist's depiction of the Pirate King.

Image source, mark millar, Mark is an ancient origin writer.

He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and literature, and has worked as a newspaper writer and copywriter. He has long been interested in anthropology, mythology and ancient history.

His hobbies are writing and painting.