Ã…sum (other)
Åsum is a place name and surname in Scandinavia. The Old Norse name is derived from the words for ridge ( ås) and home ( um)''.'' Alternative spellings include Aasum, Aasumb, and Awsumb. Åsum may refer to: *Åsum, Denmark, a village and eastern suburb of Odense, Funen, Denmark *Norra Åsum, a locality in Kristianstad, Skåne, Sweden *Södra Åsum, a church in Sjöbo Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden See also *ASUM (other), an acronym for organizations *Awsumb Awsumb is a Norwegian toponymic surname. It is derived from an ancient farm in Vinger, Norway. The spelling ''Awsumb'' is an anglicization of ''Aasumb'' used by some Norwegian emigrants to the United States. The Old Norse farm name ''Aasumb'' co ...

Scandinavia
Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer more narrowly to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes part of Finland), or more broadly to include all of Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. The geography of the region is varied, from the Norwegian fjords in the west and Scandinavian mountains covering parts of Norway and Sweden, to the low and flat areas of Denmark in the south, as well as archipelagos and lakes in the east. Most of the population in the region live in the more temperate southern regions, with the northern parts having long, cold, winters. The region became notable during the Viking Age, when Scandinavian peoples participated in large scale raiding, conquest, colonization and trading mostly throughout Eu ...
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their Viking expansion, overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the consolidation of Scandinavian kingdoms from about the 7th to the 15th centuries. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid-to-late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century. Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse, ''Old West Norse'' or ''Old West Nordic'' (often referred to as ''Old Norse''), Old East Norse, ''Old East Norse'' or ''Old East Nordic'', and ''Ol ...
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