Nidhogg
English
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Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Old Norse Níðhǫggr (“Malice Striker”)
Proper noun
[edit]Nidhogg
- (Norse mythology) a dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.
See also
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse Níðhǫggr, from níð (“libel, defamation”) + hǫggr.
Proper noun
[edit]Nidhogg m
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- nn:Norse mythology