Nidhogg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. a dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.

Word forms

Nidhogg

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Níðhǫggr (“Malice Striker”)

Related words

Veðrfölnir Ratatoskr Jörmungandr
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