Etymology

Nidhogg

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Today it means: a dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned. Full definition →

Old Norse Níðhǫggr
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  1. Old Norse · learned borrowing fromNíðhǫggr
  2. Old Norse · learned borrowing fromNíðhǫggr
  3. English todayNidhogg

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.