<P> During the Migration Period , the Germanic languages ' names for the cardinal directions entered the Romance languages , where they replaced the Latin names borealis ( or septentrionalis ) with north , australis ( or meridionalis ) with south , occidentalis with west and orientalis with east . It is possible that some northern people used the Germanic names for the intermediate directions . Medieval Scandinavian orientation would thus have involved a 45 degree rotation of cardinal directions . </P>
<P> During the Migration Period , the Germanic languages ' names for the cardinal directions entered the Romance languages , where they replaced the Latin names borealis ( or septentrionalis ) with north , australis ( or meridionalis ) with south , occidentalis with west and orientalis with east . It is possible that some northern people used the Germanic names for the intermediate directions . Medieval Scandinavian orientation would thus have involved a 45 degree rotation of cardinal directions . </P>
who came up with north south east and west
who came up with north south east and west
Germanic languages
Germanic languages