þurs

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a giant, ogre, monster
 * 2) * Vǫluspá, verse 8, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
 * unz þrjár kvámu / þursa meyjar
 * until three came / giant-maidens
 * 1) a dunce, numskull
 * 2) * Heilræðavísur, in 1933, H. Pétursson, Heilræði Hallgríms Péturssonar:
 * en þursinn heimskr þegja hlýtr,
 * but a stupid dunce must remain silent,
 * 1) the name of the Þ-rune