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Orðabók

nábrók

nárcorpse
bróktrousers
corpse trousers

which everyone uses to mean necropants — trousers made from a dead man's skin, worn to attract money

From Icelandic folk magic. A replica is on display at the Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Hólmavík, which is the only reason anyone can picture them.

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Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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