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niflgóðr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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nifl (darkness, fog) +‎ góðr (good).

Adjective

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niflgóðr

  1. (poetic, hapax) darkness-loving; evil
    • Egill Skallagrímsson, Sonatorrek 15.5-8:
      þvít niflgóðr · niðja steypir
      bróður hrør · við baugum selr.
      for the darkness-loving overthrower of kinsmen sells his brother’s corpse for rings.

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: niflgóður

Further reading

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  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “niflgóðr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press