Translation of "banshee" into Danish

banshee is the translation of "banshee" into Danish.

banshee noun grammar

In Irish folklore, a female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death. Originally a fairy woman singing a caoineadh (lament) for recently-deceased members of the O’Grady, the O’Neill, the O’Brien, the O’Connor, and the Kavanagh families, translations into English made a distinction between the banshee and other fairy folk that the original language and original stories do not seem to have, and thus the current image of the banshee. [..]

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  • banshee

    They had been married a decade when Essie swore she heard a banshee keen in the night.

    De havde været gift i ti år, da Essie svor på hun hørte en banshee skrige i mørket.

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