korr

plural korrs

1. artsA korred.

   Cf. the Breton fairies, the Korr and Korrigan.

   1911, John Arnott MacCulloch, The Religion of the Ancient Celts, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clarke, page 114

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   The woman does as directed: the Korr asks what she is about: she tells him: "For ten, dear mother, in an eggshell! I have seen the egg before I saw the white hen. I have seen the acorn before I saw the tree: I have seen the acorn and I have seen the shoot: I have seen the oak in the wood of Brézal, but never saw I such a thing as this."

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 436

   The korr, dwarf, dim. korrik, is black and ugly, with deep-set eyes and a voice muffled by age.

   1888, Jacob Grimm, translated by James Steven Stallybrass, Teutonic Mythology, volume IV, London: George Bell and Sons, page 1411

plural Korrs

1. A surname.