Ettin

Look up ettin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ettin, (also "ettin", "etene", "yetun", "ytene", "yotun"),^[1]^[2] a reconstructed English cognate to the Old Norse Jötunn from the Old English Eoten, may refer to:

Bogle (also called Ettin), a survival of the term in Northumbrian folklore referring to a malevolent mythical creature
Ettin (Dungeons & Dragons), a two-headed giant
Ettins, fictional creatures in Narnia
Ettin, the twisted, mindless remains of the fighters of the Legion in the computer game Hexen
Ettins, a species in the Creatures series of computer games
Ettin, a two-headed monstrous giant found in Ultima game series.
Ettins, the name given by the Cimmerians (a Norse-descended people) to the Goa'uld in the TV series Stargate SG-1
Ytene, now New Forest, an early medieval kingdom in west Hampshire, England whose name means "Of the Jutes"

References

↑ Northumberland Words – A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Northumberland and on the Tyneside -, Volume 1 by Richard Oliver Heslop, Read Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4097-6525-7
↑ Legg, Penny "The Folklore of Hampshire" The History Press (15 Jun. 2010)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/21/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.

Ettin

See also

References