Nidhug
- a variation of Nidhogg.
Example Sentences
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After suffering untold agonies there, they were washed down into the cauldron Hvergelmir, where the serpent Nidhug ceased for a moment gnawing the root of the tree Yggdrasil to feed upon their bones.
From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
Stags bite it above, At the side it rots, Nidhug gnaws it below.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn
Then withered on the tree of time its splendid crown, And Nidhug gnawed upon its root; then were loosed The powers of aged night.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon
Through all our life a tempter prowls malignant, The cruel Nidhug from the world below.
From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
The norns sprinkled the top with water from Urd's fountain and thus kept it alive, although Nidhug gnawed its roots.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon
