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Old Norse
Etymology
vǫndr + hús
Noun
vandahús n
- wicker house (as in a house made of wicker or wickerwork):
- house constructed of wattle and daub
- (Norse mythology) a description of the hall of snakes in Nástrǫnd (Corpse Shore), a location in Hel, as recorded in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda
- 1916, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (translation), ca. 1220, Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda, Gylfaginning 52:
Á Náströndum er mikill salr ok illr, ok horfa í norðr dyrr, hann er ok ofinn allr ormahryggjum sem vandahús, en ormahöfuð öll vitu inn í húsit ok blása eitri, svá at eptir salnum renna eitrár, ok vaða þær ár eiðrofar ok morðvargar, [...]- On Nástrand is a great hall and evil, and its doors face to the north: it is all woven of serpent-backs like a wattle-house; and all the snake-heads turn into the house and blow venom, so that along the hall run rivers of venom; and they who have broken oaths, and murderers, wade those rivers,
References
- Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (transl.) (1916). The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Available online
- Byock, Jesse L. (2013) Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas, →ISBN, page 370
- Eysteinn Björnsson (ed.). Snorra-Edda: Formáli & Gylfaginning : Textar fjögurra meginhandrita. 2005. Available online