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draugr

draugr

Old Norse

Noun

draugr m (genitive draugs, plural draugar)

(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

Declension of draugr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	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

Faroese: dreygur m
Icelandic: draugur m
Norwegian: draug (Bokmål), draug (Nynorsk)

Old Danish: drog m
Swedish: draug m (Probably reborrowed)

References

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.

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