Midgårdsormen
Danish
editProper noun
editMidgårdsormen
Swedish
editEtymology
editCompound of Midgård (“Midgard”) + -s- + orm (“snake”) + -en (“the”). Borrowed from Icelandic miðgarðsormr, ultimately from Prose Edda (c. 1220). First attested in 1747.[1]
Proper noun
editMidgårdsormen c (genitive Midgårdsormens)
- (Norse mythology) the Midgard Serpent; the Jörmungandr
- Synonyms: Jörmungand, världsormen
- 1819, Snorre Sturlasson, translated by Anders Jacob Cnattingius, Snorre Sturlesons Edda. Samt Skalda[1], page 62:
- Ty det var ingen sådan katt, som det syntes dig: det var egenteligen Midgårdsormen, som ligger omkring all land: knappt hade han längd, att stjert och hufvud räckte till jorden, och du lyftade den så högt upp, att det var blott kort till himlen.
- For it was not such a cat as it seemed to you: it was actually the Midgard Serpent, which lies around all the land: he was long enough that his tail and head barely fit the earth, and you lifted him up so high that he was only short to the sky.
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- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Norse mythology
- Swedish compound terms
- Swedish terms interfixed with -s-
- Swedish terms borrowed from Icelandic
- Swedish terms derived from Icelandic
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Norse mythology
- Swedish terms with quotations
- sv:Mythological creatures