Draugr

Signification du mot vieux norrois "draugr"

Comme défini par le dictionnaire vieux norrois-anglais de Cleasby & Vigfusson :

Le mot vieux norrois draugr peut signifier :draugr

draugr

m. [Lat. truncus is perhaps akin]:

draugr

I. a dry log; Edda (Gl.); this sense, however, only occurs in old poets, in compds such as el-draugr, ben-d., hirði-d., her-d., óðal-d., jó-d., gervi-d., in poetical circumlocutions of a man, cp. Edda 68, 85.

draugr

II. metaph. in prose (as it is now used), a ghost, spirit, esp. the dead inhabitant of a cairn was called draugr, Ld. 326, FmS. iii. 200, BS. i. 256, Stj. 492, 1 Sam. xxviii. 15, Róm. 186, 217, Orkn. 210 (in a verse), FaS. (Hervar. S.) i. 436–438, Hkv. 2. 49, fsl. (Harð. S.) ii. 47 (in a verse); it also occurs in the verse on the Runic stone in Schonen, quoted and explained in Rafn Antiq. Orient. 178, but it is uncertain whether it is here used in the first or second sense.

draugr

β. a sluggard, a drone who walks about as a ghost; draugs-ligr, adj.; drauga-skapr, m.; draugast, að, to walk about like a ghost.

draugr

γ. metric., vide draughentr above.

draugr

COMPDS: draugadrottinn, draugafé, draugagangr, draugasögur.

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