drynja
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drundi, dryn, to roar. This root word is common to , , , and Dutch; for drunjus = φθόγγος, x. 18, is a sufficient proof; in we have dröna, and drön ; dröne and drön; Dutch dreunen; to drone, as a cow; dröne; the High dröhnen was, in the 17th century, borrowed from Low In old no instance happens to be on record, except dryn-rann in 23, i. 480; in usage it is enough, and the absence in old writers seems to be accidental; draugr dimmr og magr, drundi í björgum undir, 226, a ditty by Stefan Olafsson; drynja and dynja are different in sense, drynja denotes roaring, dynja crushing; þá heyrði hilmir hátt við kletta drafnar drynja dunur þungar, of the roaring surf, () v. 401.
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