Andvari

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Andvari

Definition: Andvari

Andvari

Noun

1. (Norse mythology) a dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki.

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Specialty Definition: Andvari

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In Norse mythology, Andvari was a dwarf. He lived underneath a waterfall. He had the power to change himself into a fish at will. He had a magical ring named Andvaranaut, which helped him become wealthy. In Wagner's version he is known as Alberich.

Loki caught him (with a net provided by Ran) and forced him to give up his gold and Andvarinaut. Andvari cursed Andvaranaut with the threat that it would destroy whoever owned it, leading (inevitably) to much misfortune.

See also: Sigurd, Brunhilde, Fafnir, Hreidmar

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Andvari."

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Anagrams: Andvari

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-n-r-v"

-1 letter: navaid, radian.

-2 letters: avian, dinar, divan, drain, invar, nadir, naiad, naira, navar, ranid, ravin, vanda, varia, varna, viand.

-3 letters: airn, aria, arid, avid, darn, diva, nada, nard, raia, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, vain, vair, vara, vina.

-4 letters: aid, ain, air, ana, and, ani, ava, din, rad, ran, ria, rid, rin, van, var, via.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-n-r-v"
 

+3 letters: adenoviral, animadvert, cadaverine.

 

+4 letters: animadverts, cadaverines, depravation, invalidator, maidservant, vanguardism, vanguardist.

 

+5 letters: animadverted, depravations, derivational, divaricating, divarication, invalidators, maidservants, quadrivalent, revaccinated, revalidating, revalidation, valetudinary, vanguardisms, vanguardists.

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Alternative Orthography: Andvari


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 64 76 61 72 69

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01100100 01110110 01100001 01110010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

A n d v a r i

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0064 0076 0061 0072 0069

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35807088678475

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