Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
vrangr. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
vrangr, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
vrangr in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
vrangr you have here. The definition of the word
vrangr will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
vrangr, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wrangaz, akin to the Common Germanic verb *wringan.
Adjective
vrangr
- twisted
- c. 825, Bragi hinn gamli Boddason, poem about Thor’s fishing
Vildit vrǫngum ofra · vágs byrsendir ǿgi,
hinns mjótygil máva · mǿrar skar fyr Þóri.- The wave’s wind-sender (= Hymir) did not want to raise up the twisted terrifier (= the Midgard serpent),
when he cut the slender string of the seagull-land (fishing line) before Thor.
- wrong, false
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “vrangr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press