The Scandinavian coast runs in a roughly north-south direction and early Norsemen spoke of land-north, meaning eastward, and out-north meaning to seaward, or west, a terminology still used even after the Viking colonisation of the western lands of Greenland and discovery of North America.
Unxweme laseScandinavian lwabaleka ngokurhabaxa emntla-mzantsi indlela neNorsemen bakuqala bathetha ngomhlaba-mntla, ithetha impuma mphambili nomphandle womntla elwandle.