"valraven" meaning in All languages combined

See valraven on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: valravens [plural]
Etymology: Partial calque of Danish valravn Etymology templates: {{partial translation|en|da|valravn}} Partial calque of Danish valravn Head templates: {{en-noun}} valraven (plural valravens)
  1. Alternative form of valravn Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: valravn
    Sense id: en-valraven-en-noun-qNAVhgp4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1914, Johannes Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steenstrup, The Medieval Popular Ballad, page 194:",
          "text": "[…] this means effects the release of the Valraven, which is transformed into a knight. […] the Valraven drinks the child's blood […]",
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          "ref": "2006, Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse, Night Shade, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Only a valraven's rider may know his name. “I am not worthy, Bright one.” He just snorted and let himself slump down in the bloody snow. Will you wait with me? It was not so much words as a desire, a feeling in my heart, and I nodded .",
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          "ref": "2016, George Hagen, Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle, Yearling, →ISBN, page 108:",
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          "text": "2020, Clara Coulson, A Knight of Cold Graves (The Revenant Reign #1), Knite and Day Publishing\nIn the minutes that she'd been out of Saul's sight, she'd somehow acquired a valraven—a reanimated raven corpse. The dead bird stood perched on her shoulder, its one beady black eye focused on the idiot brothers. The empty socket ..."
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