Any authentic water-sprite folklore the site may originally have had was thus trampled down by Evershed's enthusiastic inculcation of the local people in ideas about water-dragons. Yet the waters at the pool were badly muddied by a local antiquarian named Samuel Evershed, who from 1866 tried assiduously to connect the pool with dragons and thus with the tale of St. The great Victorian authority Walter William Skeat had plausibly suggested the pool's name of knucker (a name attested from 1835, Horsfield) was likely derived from the Old English nicor, a creature-name found in Beowulf. These include Jenny Greenteeth, the Shellycoat, the river-hag Peg Powler, the Bäckahäst-like Brag, and the Grindylow.Īt Lyminster, near Arundel in the English county of West Sussex, there are today said to dwell "water-wyrms" called knuckers, in a pool called the Knucker-hole. The southern Scandinavian version can transform himself into a horse-like kelpie, and is called a Bäckahästen (the "brook horse"), whilst the Welsh version is called the Ceffyl Dŵr (the "water horse").Įnglish folklore contains many creatures with similar characteristics to the Nix or Näck. The Norwegian Fossegrim and Swedish Strömkarlen are related figures sometimes seen as by-names for the same creature. The Old High German form nihhus also meant "crocodile", while the Old English nicor could mean both a "water monster" like those encountered by Beowulf, and a "hippopotamus".
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In Middle Low German, it was called necker and in Middle Dutch nicker (compare also Nickel or Nikkel plus Kobolt). The Icelandic and Faroese nykur are horselike creatures. In Old Danish, the form was nikke and in modern Danish and Norwegian Bokmål it is nøkke/ nøkk. The Swedish form is derived from Old Swedish neker, which corresponds to Old Icelandic nykr ( gen. The form neck appears in English and Swedish ( näck or nek, meaning "nude"). They are related to Sanskrit nḗnēkti, Greek νίζω nízō and νίπτω níptō, and Irish nigh (all meaning to wash or be washed). The names are held to derive from Common Germanic * nikwus or * nikwis(i), derived from PIE *neigʷ ("to wash"). Similar creatures are known from other parts of Europe, such as the Melusine in France, the Xana in Asturias (Spain), and the Slavic water spirits (e.g. The German Nixe was a female river mermaid. The German Nix and his Scandinavian counterparts were male. Their sex, bynames, and various transformations vary geographically. The related English knucker was generally depicted as a wyrm or dragon, although more recent versions depict the spirits in other forms. Under a variety of names, they were common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are perhaps best known from Scandinavian folklore.
The Nixie, Nixy, Nix, Näcken, Nicor, Nøkk, or Nøkken ( German: Nixe Dutch: nikker, nekker Danish: nøkke Norwegian Bokmål: nøkk Nynorsk: nykk Swedish: näck Faroese: nykur Finnish: näkki Icelandic: nykur Estonian: näkk Old English: nicor) are humanoid, and often shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and of folklore.
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