How do YOU say draugr?

Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:53 pm

I say it Draw gARRRRrrrr! Like a pirate :shifty:
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Silencio
 
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:37 pm

'Feral Ghoul'
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Killah Bee
 
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:34 am

Draw-gur
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Nancy RIP
 
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:49 pm

I call them an excuse to play with fire

Awesome!
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James Rhead
 
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:34 am

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Matthew Barrows
 
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:18 am

Kinda like Draw-goor.
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:02 am

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Thank goodness for Scratch 'N Listen™ technology! For the correct pronunciation of Draugr, please use any very sharp object available to you to scratch this turtle: :turtle:
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:25 am



Thank goodness for Scratch 'N Listen™ technology! For the correct pronunciation of Draugr, please use any very sharp object available to you to scratch this turtle: :turtle:

Lol, sweet. How'd you know I'm on an iPad? *scratch*
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Frank Firefly
 
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:00 pm

I say it how the norse would have said the same word: drog, which should rhyme with dog. The first r would "roll", like it would in Spanish, and the r at the end is silent.
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:51 pm

I say it how the norse would have said the same word: drog, which should rhyme with dog. The first r would "roll", like it would in Spanish, and the r at the end is silent.

We have a winner!

from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006032806369

Based on the rules of Old Norse pronunciation it would be "drog," rhyming with dog, with a trilled R. The R would be as in Spanish or Southern German - like a drum roll with the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth. The final R is silent, according to the rules.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr

A draugr, draug or (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language) draugur (original http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_grammar draugar, as used here, not "draugrs"), or draugen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language#Nouns, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language, meaning "the draug"), also known as aptrgangr ("afturg?ngur" in modern icelandic) (literally "again-walker", or "one who walks after death") is an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undead creature from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology. The original http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_language meaning of the word is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_in_European_culture, and older literature makes clear distinctions between sea-draug and land-draug. Draugar were believed to live in the graves of the dead, with a draugr being the animated body of the dead. As the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_%28burial%29 of important men often contained a good amount of wealth, the draugr jealously guards his treasures, even after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death.
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:18 pm

draugr you silly goose
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:40 am

Drow-ger...
Im now going to start pronouncing it 'Drog' without the r at the end however because according to a source, that is how it would actually be said in Old Norse

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006032806369
Thanks this will be my new pronunciation, it seems legit.
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:51 pm

draw-gr
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:30 pm

Dru-gar :)
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Marina Leigh
 
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:24 am

dra-ger
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leni
 
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Post » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:59 pm

I say drow-gr.
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