hulder.
huldre; a beautiful female supernatural being, traditionally said to have a hollow back and a cow's tail, to own livestock, dwell in mountains and hills, and lure young men with music and song
Meaning & usage
huldre; a beautiful female supernatural being, traditionally said to have a hollow back and a cow's tail, to own livestock, dwell in mountains and hills, and lure young men with music and song
Hun sa at hun hadde møtt ei hulder ved skogkanten.
huldre; a beautiful female supernatural being, traditionally said to have a hollow back and a cow's tail, to own livestock, dwell in mountains and hills, and lure young men with music and song a personification of Norwegian nature, especially its mysterious and supernatural character as conceived in traditional folk belief
a beautiful, alluring woman
a beautiful, alluring woman a reclusive woman or being living in the wilderness, reminiscent of a hulder
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse *hyldr (“hulder”), genitive huldar, from Old Norse hylja (“to hide, cover”), from Proto-Germanic *huljaną (“to cover, veil”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide”). Compare Old Norse Huld, the name of a sorceress or giantess. The underlying sense is thus “the hidden one” or “the concealed one”. The word is etymologically unrelated to hul (“hollow”); the traditional hollow-back motif belongs to the folklore and is not the source of the name. Compare cognates of the underlying verb: Icelandic hylja, Faroese hylja, Swedish hölja, Danish hylle, Dutch hullen and German hüllen (“to cover, conceal”).
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