Etymology

Hedeby

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Today it means: An important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement. Full definition →

Danish Hedeby ← Old Norse Heiða-býr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromHeiða-býr
  2. Danish · borrowed fromHedeby
  3. English todayHedeby

From Danish Hedeby, from Old Norse Heiða-býr (literally “heath-settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.