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If you are like me, you prefer knowing how words sound when read, especially if you are reading them aloud to someone else, so I have included my best estimate of how some of the less obvious words are pronounced, based on several sources. For multi-syllable words, the emphasized syllable is in all caps. Any errors are, sadly, my own.

Note: The numbers in brackets indicate in which book the word/phrase/name appears: (1) The Viking Who Fell Through Time; (2) The Viking’s Shadow Lady; (3) A Viking in Atlantis, (4) The Viking Who Saved the Future

• Ajmal (ADG-mal) (1)
• Arakon (A-ra-kon) (3)
• Arne (AR-neh) (2)
• Beade (be-AH-dah) (1)
• Beren (BEH-ren), formerly Jenal (JEH-nal) (1) (2) (3) (4)
• Dioni (DY-oh-nee) (3)
• Dyre (DEE-ray) (1)
• Einar (EYE-nar) (3)
• Emund (EE-mund) (1)
• Fionn (FINN) (4)
• Freyja (FRAY-yah) - Norse goddess of love, fertility, and battle (4)
• Fryteria (fry-TAIR-ee-ah) (4)
• Gudrin (GOOD-rin) (2) (3) (4)
• Jussi (JOO-see) (3)
• Kai (KYE) (2)
• Kaya (KYE-ah) (2)
• Kiana (kee-ANN-a), formerly Nahid (naah-HEED) (1) (2) (3) (4)
• Lida (LEE-dah) (1) (2) (4)
• Lita (LEE-ta) (3)
• Mykola (MY-coal-ah) (3)
• N'Tala (en-TAH-lah) - female of the Tala clan (4) 
• Piter (PY-ter) (3)
• Qinn (KINN) (4) 
• Runa (ROO-na) (1) (2) (4)
• Summar (SOO-mar) (4)
• V’Tala (vuh-TAH-lah) - male of the Tala clan (4)
• V'Bazra (vuh-BAZ-rah) - male of the Bazra clan (4)  
• Vider (VY-der) (1) (2) (3) (4)
• Vitaros (vi-TAR-ose) (3)
• Wyfedra (why-FED-rah) (4) 
• Xena (ZEE-nah) (3) (4)
• Zabeth (ZAH-beth) (2) (3) (4)

• Á sér sitja (ah sair SEET-yah) - be quiet (1)
• Anno Domini (anno do-mee-nee) - Latin for “year of our lord” (2) (3)
• Bǫkk (thock - ‘th’ as in ‘breath’) - Norse for “thanks” (2)
• Borð (thorth -first 'th' is as in 'breath', second 'th' is as in 'breathe') - Norse for “table” (2)
• Forstår du mig (fore STAR doo meeg) - Norse for “Do you understand?” (3)
• Góðr (GOATH-rr) - Norse for “good” or “fine” (1) (2)
• Ja (YAH) - Norse for “yes” (2) (3)
• Kaliste (kah-LISS-tay) - Greek for “The Fair One” (an island in the Aegean Sea) (3) (4)
• Keevah (KEE-va) - Warm milk, spiced, with a strengthening/healing potion in it, a combination of local herbs and medicine traded with a Shadow world; also used as birth control (2) (4)
• Klengodd, (KLEN-got) - Claw-shaped root from a Shadow world that, when treated with certain chemicals, has remarkable healing properties (2) (3) (4)
• Knorr (NOOR) - Viking ship used primarily in trade (Norse) (1) (2)
• Latine loqueris (la-TEEN-ay low-KWAIR-iss) - Latin for “do you speak Latin” (2)
• Lauga (LAU-gah, rhymes with HOW-ga) - Norse for “bathe” (2)
• Nei (NAY) - Norse for “no” (2) (3)
• Parlez-vous Francais (par-lay voo fron-say) - French for “do you speak French” (2)
• Pirean brandy (PEER-ee-an) - A potent drink made of fermented berries and flowers from the planet Piry (4) 
• Sjørotte (Shure-OTT-ah) - Norse for "sea rat"; derogatory name for raiders (2) 
• Staser (STAY-zer) - Shield Transmitter And Stun Energy Ray (hand weapon, able to stun or kill) (4) 
• Vel kominn (vel-COAM-en) - Norse for “welcome” (2)
• Þing (thing) - Norse - a local meeting, usually in the open to accommodate a lot of people, a venue to discuss problems that affected the local people, to settle disputes, or to punish lawbreakers. (4)