draugr
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See also: Draugr
Alternative forms
Noun
draugr (plural draugrs or draugar)
- (Norse mythology) An undead creature from Norse mythology, an animated corpse that inhabits its grave, often guarding buried treasure.
Translations
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *draugaz (“delusion, mirage, illusion”). Akin to Old Saxon gidrog (“delusion”) and Old High German bitrog (“delusion”), gitrog (“ghost”). See also Finnish raukka.
Noun
draugr m (genitive draugs, plural draugar)
- (Norse mythology) ghost, spirit, undead
- Þáttr Þorsteins skelks, in 1827, S. Egilsson, Þ. Guðmundsson, Fornmanna sögur, Volume III. Copenhagen, page 200:
- Hann kyndir ofn brennanda, sagði draugrinn.
- "He kindles furnace's fire", said the ghost.
- Þáttr Þorsteins skelks, in 1827, S. Egilsson, Þ. Guðmundsson, Fornmanna sögur, Volume III. Copenhagen, page 200:
Declension
Declension of draugr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Possibly a nominalisation of Proto-Germanic *draugiz (though one would expect the vowel to display umlaut) or related to drjúgr.
Noun
draugr m
Descendants
- Icelandic: draugur
References
- “draugr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- draugr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- draugr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
- drög in Rietz, J. E. Svenskt dialektlexikon
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