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In [[:Category:Origin: Norse Mythology|Norse Mythology]], '''Níðhöggr''' is a Norse dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil Yggdrasill]; threatening to destroy it. The serpent is always bickering with the eagle that houses in the top of the tree. | In [[:Category:Origin: Norse Mythology|Norse Mythology]], '''Níðhöggr''' is a Norse dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil Yggdrasill]; threatening to destroy it. The serpent is always bickering with the eagle that houses in the top of the tree. | ||
[[Image:Nidhoggr.png|thumb|right|300px|Níðhöggr gnaws the roots of Yggdrasill in this illustration from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript.]] | |||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
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* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989). ''Íslensk orðsifjabók''. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans. | * Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989). ''Íslensk orðsifjabók''. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans. | ||
* Bellows, Henry Adams. Translation of the Poetic Edda. Available at | * Bellows, Henry Adams. Translation of the Poetic Edda. Available at http://www.northvegr.org/ . | ||
* Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (transl.) (1916). ''The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson''. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. ''Available online at http://www.northvegr.org/''. | * Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (transl.) (1916). ''The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson''. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. ''Available online at http://www.northvegr.org/''. | ||
* Dronke, Ursula (1997). ''The Poetic Edda : Volume II : Mythological Poems''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. In particular p. 18 and pp. 124-5. | * Dronke, Ursula (1997). ''The Poetic Edda : Volume II : Mythological Poems''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. In particular p. 18 and pp. 124-5. |