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draugr

See also: Draugr

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Noun edit

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.

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Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

draugr m (genitive draugs, plural draugar)

  2. (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.
Declension edit
  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 edit
  • Icelandic: draugur
  • Faroese: dreygur
  • Norn: drog
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: draug, drog
  • Norwegian Bokmål: draug
  • Old Danish: drog
  • Swedish: drög (dialectal, archaic)
  • → Swedish: draug
  • → Danish: drauge, dravge
  • → English: draugr

Etymology 2 edit

Possibly a nominalisation of Proto-Germanic *draugiz (though one would expect the vowel to display umlaut) or related to drjúgr.

Noun edit

draugr m

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

  • “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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