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Norse MCP Server

com.valksor/norse
answering

Norse is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Grounds LLMs in real Old Norse: lemmas, mediopassive paradigms, English→Old Norse lookup.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
159 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add norse --transport http https://norse.valksor.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "norse": {
      "url": "https://norse.valksor.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.norse]
url = "https://norse.valksor.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "norse": {
      "url": "https://norse.valksor.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "norse": {
      "url": "https://norse.valksor.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

norse
norse_get_inflections
Fetch the full declension (nominals) or conjugation (verbs — active AND mediopassive) tables for a lemma identified by a search result's inflection handle (entry_id + word_class). Use this only when a search ran without inline forms or left a match un-expanded — a default search already returns each match's table inline. Returns Markdown plus the table as structuredContent with the shape {"result": <paradigm>} per the declared outputSchema — switch on result.category ('nominal' | 'verbal' | 'not_found') before reading the body. Content from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0).
norse_search
Look an Old Norse word up on Wiktionary and return its senses plus full declension/conjugation tables — attested content (including the verbs' mediopassive voice), not invented. Any form of the word works; an inflected query is resolved to its lemma automatically via previously cached paradigms and the result notes the resolution. With search_language='eng' the query is an English word instead: the result lists its per-sense Old Norse equivalents (the translations block) plus their expanded entries. Returns Markdown plus the same result as structuredContent matching the declared outputSchema. Results are cached server-side; first-time queries reach the live upstream politely and calls are rate limited — on a rate-limit error, wait a few seconds and retry. Content is from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribute and share alike if republished).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://norse.valksor.com/mcp streamable-http answering 186 ms 5 min ago

Norse — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Norse do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: norse_get_inflections, norse_search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Norse working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 159 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Norse?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Norse need an API key?
No. Norse completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Norse?
It answers our handshake in 159 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.