vrangr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• rangr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wrangaz, akin to the Common Germanic verb *wringan.

Adjective

vrangr

1. twisted
   • c. 825, Bragi hinn gamli Boddason, poem about Thor’s fishing

     Vildit vrǫngum ofra · vágs byrsendir ǿgi,
     hinns mjótygil máva · mǿrar skar fyr Þóri.

     The wave’s wind-sender (= Hymir) did not want to raise up the twisted terrifier (= the Midgard serpent),
     when he cut the slender string of the seagull-land (fishing line) before Thor.

2. wrong, false

Declension

Strong declension of vrangr

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrangr	vrǫng	vrangt
accusative	vrangan	vranga	vrangt
dative	vrǫngum	vrangri	vrǫngu
genitive	vrangs	vrangrar	vrangs
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrangir	vrangar	vrǫng
accusative	vranga	vrangar	vrǫng
dative	vrǫngum	vrǫngum	vrǫngum
genitive	vrangra	vrangra	vrangra

Weak declension of vrangr

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrangi	vranga	vranga
accusative	vranga	vrǫngu	vranga
dative	vranga	vrǫngu	vranga
genitive	vranga	vrǫngu	vranga
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrǫngu	vrǫngu	vrǫngu
accusative	vrǫngu	vrǫngu	vrǫngu
dative	vrǫngum	vrǫngum	vrǫngum
genitive	vrǫngu	vrǫngu	vrǫngu

Declension of comparative of vrangr

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrengri	vrengri	vrengra
accusative	vrengra	vrengri	vrengra
dative	vrengra	vrengri	vrengra
genitive	vrengra	vrengri	vrengra
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrengri	vrengri	vrengri
accusative	vrengri	vrengri	vrengri
dative	vrengrum	vrengrum	vrengrum
genitive	vrengri	vrengri	vrengri

Strong declension of superlative of vrangr

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrengstr	vrengst	vrengst
accusative	vrengstan	vrengsta	vrengst
dative	vrengstum	vrengstri	vrengstu
genitive	vrengsts	vrengstrar	vrengsts
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrengstir	vrengstar	vrengst
accusative	vrengsta	vrengstar	vrengst
dative	vrengstum	vrengstum	vrengstum
genitive	vrengstra	vrengstra	vrengstra

Weak declension of superlative of vrangr

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrengsti	vrengsta	vrengsta
accusative	vrengsta	vrengstu	vrengsta
dative	vrengsta	vrengstu	vrengsta
genitive	vrengsta	vrengstu	vrengsta
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vrengstu	vrengstu	vrengstu
accusative	vrengstu	vrengstu	vrengstu
dative	vrengstum	vrengstum	vrengstum
genitive	vrengstu	vrengstu	vrengstu

Descendants

• Norwegian: vrang; (dialectal) vrang’e, vrång’e
• Elfdalian: rwaungg
• Old Danish: wrangær
  • Danish: vrang
    • Norwegian Bokmål: vrang
• Old Swedish: wranger
  • Swedish: vrång
• Scanian: vránger
• → Old English: wrang (see there for further descendants)
• Later Old West Norse: rangr
  • Icelandic: rangur
  • Faroese: rangur
  • Norn: rang
  • Norwegian: rang; (dialectal) rang’u, rång’e
  • Jamtish: ráng

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “vrangr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press