Muitas palabras con orichen en nordico antigo u norrén se pueden trobar actualment en l'anglés, debito mas que mas a la colonización vikinga de l'este y norte d'Anglaterra entre os anyos 800–1000, periodo en que se conoixió a la rechión como Danelaw. Entre istas s'incluyen palabras prou comuns como anger ("ira"), awe ("temor"), bag ("bosa"), big ("gran"), birth ("naiximiento"), to blunder ("fer una errada gran"), both ("ambos"), cake ("pastel", "tarta"), call ("clamada", "crida") to call ("clamar"), to cast ("emitir", "lanzar"), cosy ("acullidor"), to cross ("cruzar", "travesar"), to cut ("tallar"), to die ("morir"), dirt ("suciedat"), to drag ("arrocegar"), to drown ("afogar"), egg ("uego"), fellow ("individuo"), flat (adchectivo "plan"), flounder (Paralichthys, un peix plan pareixiu a lo rodaballo), gain ("ganancia", "beneficio"), to get ("obtener"), gift ("regalo"), to give ("dar"), to guess ("devinar"), guest ("invitau"), gust ("bufada d'aire"), hug ("abrazo"), husband ("mariu"), ill ("malauto"), kid ("crabito", "nino"), law ("lei"), leg ("gamba", "pata"), to lift ("alzar"), likely ("probable"), link ("vinclo", "ligallo"), to loan ("prestar", complementario de to borrow, "amprar"), loose ("fluixo", "suelto"), low ("baixo"), mistake ("errada"), odd ("rarizo"), race ("cursa"), raise (corradical de l'anglosaxón rise pero a diferencia d'este ye transitivo y quiere dicir "fer puyar"), root ("radiz"), rotten ("podriu"), same ("mesmo"), scale, scare, score, seat, seem, sister ("chermana"), skill ("habilidat"), skin ("piel"), skirt ("saya", "falda", corradical de l'anglosaxón shirt, "camisa"), skull ("cranio"), sky ("ciel"), to stain ("manchar", "tenyir"), steak ("chulla", "filet"), to sway ("sobater"), take ("prener"), though (conchunción "encara que"), thrive ("prosperar"), Thursday ("chueves"), tight ("denso", "compacto", "preto"), till (preposición "dica"), trust ("confianza", "confiar"), ugly ("fiero"), to want ("querer", orichinariament "mancar", "faltar"), want ("deseyo", "escaseza", "necesidat"), weak ("feble", "fluixo"), window ("finestra"), wing ("ala"), wrong ("mal", "erronio", "entivocau"), o pronombre they (ells/ellas, y as formas derivatas), y mesmo o verbo are (forma present plural d'o verbo to be) tienen iste orichen. Amprens escandinavos mas recients incluyen angstrom, fjord, geyser, kraken, litmus, nickel, ombudsman, saga, ski, slalom, smorgasbord, y tungsten.