Old Norse language

Quality:

Old Norse - North Germanic language. Article “Old Norse language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Old Norse language”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1963 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 246 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28112 times in all languages (6002^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #340 in October 2024
• Global: #1483 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3502 in May 2025
• Global: #8114 in May 2014

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Old Norse		84.8449
2	Slovak (sk) Staroseverčina		53.9515
3	Chinese (zh) 古諾斯語		45.8876
4	Ukrainian (uk) Давньоскандинавська мова		44.3037
5	Polish (pl) Język staronordyjski		42.2053
6	Hungarian (hu) Óészaki nyelv		41.1936
7	Korean (ko) 고대 노르드어		40.4327
8	Catalan (ca) Norrè		39.8679
9	Italian (it) Lingua norrena		36.7718
10	Portuguese (pt) Língua nórdica antiga		36.2927

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old Norse		8 740 347
2	Spanish (es) Nórdico antiguo		938 377
3	French (fr) Vieux norrois		905 223
4	Russian (ru) Древнескандинавский язык		791 199
5	German (de) Altnordische Sprache		784 399
6	Italian (it) Lingua norrena		607 263
7	Japanese (ja) 古ノルド語		599 398
8	Portuguese (pt) Língua nórdica antiga		389 580
9	Swedish (sv) Fornnordiska		380 826
10	Polish (pl) Język staronordyjski		304 658

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old Norse		29 427
2	French (fr) Vieux norrois		3 438
3	Russian (ru) Древнескандинавский язык		2 883
4	Japanese (ja) 古ノルド語		2 313
5	Spanish (es) Nórdico antiguo		1 720
6	German (de) Altnordische Sprache		1 688
7	Italian (it) Lingua norrena		1 250
8	Chinese (zh) 古諾斯語		1 104
9	Persian (fa) زبان نورس باستان		1 015
10	Swedish (sv) Fornnordiska		810

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old Norse		593
2	French (fr) Vieux norrois		133
3	German (de) Altnordische Sprache		122
4	Italian (it) Lingua norrena		113
5	Russian (ru) Древнескандинавский язык		86
6	Spanish (es) Nórdico antiguo		75
7	Swedish (sv) Fornnordiska		75
8	Dutch (nl) Oudnoords		68
9	Catalan (ca) Norrè		50
10	Japanese (ja) 古ノルド語		48

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old Norse		9
2	German (de) Altnordische Sprache		2
3	Arabic (ar) اللغة النوردية القديمة		1
4	Basque (eu) Antzinako eskandinaviera		1
5	Italian (it) Lingua norrena		1
6	Korean (ko) 고대 노르드어		1
7	Serbian (sr) Старонордијски језик		1
8	Swedish (sv) Fornnordiska		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qədim skandinav dili		0
10	Belarusian (be) Старажытнаскандынаўская мова		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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