ganfer

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of ghost found in the folklore of Orkney and Shetland.
    — […] by Ghosts here called Ganfers, in all which many place more confidence than in the more reasonable propositions that can be adduced to convince them of the absurdity of such notions.

词形变化

ganfers plural

词源

Originally a dialectal term from Shetland and Orkney, also denoting certain negative atmospheric phenomena. Thought to ultimately derive from Old Norse gandferð (“gand-journey”), with the first element connected to Old Norse gandr (“evil spirit”). Compare dialectal Norwegian gannfar, gandferd
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