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Page recording a charm against a dwarf, from the Lacnunga collection, in which the dwarf is referred to as a wiht. [1]A wight is a being or thing. This general meaning is shared by cognate terms in Germanic languages, however the usage of the term varies greatly over time and between regions.
Scots: drow, trow ("evil spirit, troll"), appears related, possibly via a unrecorded Norn: *drog ("draugr"), but also effected by Old Norse: trǫll ("troll"), which at the time was different and more ambiguous than today and rather meant something akin to magical creature of ill will, even being used figuratively for draugr.
The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which had numerous variant forms, including mare, mere, and mær). [2] Likewise are the forms in Old Norse/Icelandic mara [3] as well as the Old High German mara [5] (glossed in Latin as "incuba " [6]), [7] while the Middle High German forms are mar, mare, [8] [10]
Knýtlinga saga, however, retells the account from Heimskringla and refers to the beings instead as óvættir ("evil spirits"), consistent with it being told from a Danish perspective. [11] In Egils saga, when in Norway, Egil Skallagrímsson erects a níðstöng, a horses head on a stake, as an insult to the landvættir.
Old Norse þurs, Old English þyrs, and Old High German duris 'devil, evil spirit' derive from the Proto-Germanic masculine noun *þur(i)saz, itself derived from Proto-Germanic *þurēnan, which is etymologically connected to Sanskrit turá - 'strong, powerful, rich'. [6]
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In Norse mythology, a fylgja (Old Norse: , plural fylgjur [ˈfylɡjuz̠]) is a supernatural being or spirit which accompanies a person in connection to their fate or fortune. [1] They can appear to a person in one sleep as dream-women, or appear while awake, often as a disembodied spiritual form of an enemy.
The Nordic näcken, näkki, nøkk were male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes or streams. However, not all of these spirits were necessarily malevolent; many stories indicate at the very least that nøkker were entirely harmless to their audience and attracted not only women and ...