vardøger

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • vardøge, vardøgge, vardøgle, vardaug, vardyvle, vardyger (dialectal)
  • Valdøger (Spydeberg dialect, 1780)

Etymology

From Old Norse varðhygi.

Noun

vardøger n (definite singular vardøgeret, indefinite plural vardøger, definite plural vardøgera)

  1. (folklore) a déjà vu in reverse, where the vardøger-spirit precedes a person in a location or activity, resulting in witnesses believing they've seen or heard the actual person before the person physically arrives. It can occur not only like a doppelganger of a person, but also a doppelganger of an animal or a car-driving person.

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