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- proper noun a
mythological Norse monster
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Examples
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In Norse mythology, there are tales of the dragons Nidhogg and Farnir.
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Apparently, Paul's character is trying to find the Tree Of Life to save his daughter, and must fight the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, a mystical Persian sorceress, the legendary Norse God-creature the Nidhogg, and a Star Wars character.
November 2007 2007
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Apparently, Paul's character is trying to find the Tree Of Life to save his daughter, and must fight the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, a mystical Persian sorceress, the legendary Norse God-creature the Nidhogg, and a Star Wars character.
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When we read, for example, the Norse myths, they stifle a yawn at the sun dawning over the green and lovely new earth, but sit up, eyes bright and fascinated, when we read about Nidhogg, the dragon of destruction, or the hag with many heads.
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The squirrel called Ratatoskr runs up and down the ash-tree, carrying hateful words between the eagle and Nidhogg.
Ratatoskr, the Messenger Squirrel Jan 2008
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The male Midgardsormr according to Norse mythology is the sea serpent, whose tail encircles the earth while Nidhogg is the is the she dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.
Archive 2008-12-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008
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The squirrel called Ratatoskr runs up and down the ash-tree, carrying hateful words between the eagle and Nidhogg.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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The male Midgardsormr according to Norse mythology is the sea serpent, whose tail encircles the earth while Nidhogg is the is the she dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.
The Mythological Avatars of June Dion Alpha Auer 2008
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The foul, spotted dragon Nidhogg flies over the plains, bearing corpses and Death itself away upon his wings, and sinks out of sight. 10
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Nastrond's grisly hail, which is shaped of serpents 'spines, and through whose loop holes drops of poison drip, where no sunlight ever reaches, they welter in a venom sea and are gnawed by the dragon Nidhogg. 8 In a word, what to the crude moral sense of the martial Goth seemed piety, virtue, led to heaven; what seemed blasphemy, baseness, led to hell.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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