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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
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