draugr

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English

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Noun

draugr (plural draugrs or draugar)

  1. (Norse mythology) An undead creature from Norse mythology, an animated corpse that inhabits its grave, often guarding buried treasure.

Translations

Old Norse

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Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdrɑuɣr̩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Norse *ᛞᚨᚱᚨᚢᚷᚨᛉ (*dᵃraugaʀ, “revenant, ghost, phantom; deceiver”), 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)

  2. (folklore) 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.
  3. (Old East Norse) based on descendants + cognates: deceiver; nomen agentis to an attested cognate to Old Saxon bidriogan, Old High German triogan (“to mislead, deceive”)
Declension
Declension of draugr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative draugr draugrinn draugar draugarnir
accusative draug drauginn drauga draugana
dative draugi drauginum draugum draugunum
genitive draugs draugsins drauga drauganna
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

  2. (poetic) dry wood; tree trunk
  3. (poetic) (from the sense of tree-trunk) man, warrior
Descendants

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “draugr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 102
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “draugr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 92; also available at the Internet Archive
  • drög in Rietz, J. E. Svenskt dialektlexikon

References

  1. ^ https://runeberg.org/hesjonamn/0101.html
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