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Old Norse
Etymology
Made up from mikill (“big, great”) + garðr (“city”), literally “the large city”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Miklagarðr m
- Byzantium, Constantinople (the ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey; modern Istanbul)
(Can we date this quote?), chapter 2, in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar:Haraldur dvaldist í Garðaríki nokkura vetur og fór víða um Austurveg. Síðan byrjaði hann ferð sína út í Grikkland og hafði mikla sveit manna. Þá hélt hann til Miklagarðs.- Harald stayed in Garðaríki for some years and fared far and wide around the Austurveg. Afterwards he began his journey out to Byzantium and had a large group of men. Then he held to Constantinople.
Descendants
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