In which other
languages more than old Swedish is this word common?
Tore
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I associate this word with an Icelandic fairy tale I read long ago. A troll
or similar monster challenges a man in a poetry contest. The man must say a line
that rhymes with the troll's line of poetry, or he will be eaten alive. The
troll says a line of poetry that ends in "tungl", for which there is no rhyming
word in Icelandic (so the story goes). The man wins anyway, for he says "I throw
you down this cliff with my 'ungl-'". "Ungleggur" is the part of the arm below
the elbow.
Hakan
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