In Old Norse, norrœnn means "Norse" or "northern"; the feminine norrœnna, as a substantive, refers to either the Old Norse language, or to a northern breeze [REF].
From 1905 to 1907, Rasmus Anderson acted as editor-in-chief of the Norrœna Library,[REF] a multi-volume subscription set, which he considered "the crowning part of my efforts in the service of Scandinavian literature."[REF]