Talk:Draug

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I`m referring to the existing article of the norvegian creature Draug.

I suggest that the articles of Draug and Draugr be merged, because I think it makes little sense to keep them apart as separate creatures. In fact, the only thing parting them is the letter -r at the end of the word, suggesting a norse nominative case. The Draug without the -r, suggest a norse accusative, so the difference is that big.

Futher on: If the writer had referred solely to the icelandic creature, and not the norse, the form would have been Draugur, as in modern icelandic. That`s linguistics for you.

As older nynorsk literature differs between sea-draugs and land-draugs (Garborg), and the nynorsk stated that draug meant ghost all the way up to the newer lexica and wordbooks, it makes little sense to keep the two articles separated.

Eilev G. Myhren

I agree. Feel free to go ahead with a merge. Haukur 17:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the Draug and Draugr articles should be merged. It is true that there is no difference between the two, aside from being the accusative versus nominative form of the name. LuskeLoke 07:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)