Dictionary
Jor•mun•rek
Pronunciation: (yôr'moon-rek"), [key]
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n. Scand. Myth.(in the
Poetic Edda and the
Volsunga Saga)
king of the Goths, murderer of Svanhild, the daughter of Sigurd: killed by the Gjukungs; probably identical with Ermanaric (4th century a.d.), the Ostrogothic leader.
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