Drott, Drótt or Dróttin was a Scandinavian kingly and priestly title corresponding to "prince" in a wide sense. The Scandinavian name for Queen, drottning is derived from this title. Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ... A queen regnant is a female monarch, who possesses all the monarchal powers that a king would have, without regard to gender. ...

After the Christianisation, the term began to be used for God (cf. the Lord). The historical phenomenon of Christianization, the conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire peoples at once (a political shift as much as a spontaneous mass shift in individual consciences), also includes the practice of converting pagan cult practices, pagan religious imagery, pagan sites and the pagan calendar...

Etymology

The same word existed in Old Saxon: drohtin, Old English: dryhten, Old High German: truhtin. The word comes from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz and is derived from druhti- meaning "war band". In this sense the word appears as Icelandic: drótt, Old English: dryht, Old High German: truht. In Gothic appears the verb driugan meaning "to do military service". In Old English dréogan and in Icelandic drygia appear, both meaning "to perform". The root is the same as in Slavic drug meaning "companion" (see druzhina). Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German, is a Germanic language. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Old High German is the earliest recorded form of the modern German language, and was spoken from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century. ... Map of the Pre-Roman Iron Age culture(s) associated with Proto-Germanic, ca 500 BC-50 BC. The area south of Scandinavia is the Jastorf culture Proto-Germanic, the proto-language believed by scholars to be the common ancestor of the Germanic languages, includes among its descendants Dutch, Yiddish... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Old High German is the earliest recorded form of the modern German language, and was spoken from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century. ... The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰 𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Housecarls were household troops, personal warriors and equivalent to a royal bodyguard to Scandinavian kings. ...

Mythology

In the Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson wrote that Domar married Drott, the daughter of Danp who was the son of Ríg (Heimdall). Heimskringla is the old norse name of a collection of sagas recorded in Iceland around 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1179-1242). ... Snorri Sturluson (1178 â€“ September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. ... In Norse mythology, the Swedish king Domar of the House of Ynglings was the son of Domalde. ... In the eddic poem Rígthula (Old Norse Rígþula ) Song of Ríg, the name Ríg is applied to a god who is called old and wise, mighty and strong who wandered through the world and brought into being (apparently by fathering them) the progenitors of the... Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freya Heimdall (Old Norse Heimdallr, the prefix Heim- means world, the affix -dallr is of uncertain origin, perhaps it means pole, bright, or valley) is one of the gods in Norse mythology. ...

Snorri wrote:

Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter of King Danp, the son of Ríg, who was first called konungr in the Danish tongue. His descendants always afterwards considered the title of konungr the title of highest dignity. Dygvi was the first of his family to be called konungr, for his predecessors had been called dróttinn ['chieftain'], and their wives dróttning, and their court drótt ['war band']. Each of their race was called Yngvi, or Ynguni, and the whole race together Ynglingar. Queen Drótt was a sister of King Dan Mikillati, from whom Denmark took its name.

Dygvi, Dyggve or Digne was a Swedish king of the House of Ynglings. ... In the eddic poem Rígthula (Old Norse Rígþula ) Song of Ríg, the name Ríg is applied to a god who is called old and wise, mighty and strong who wandered through the world and brought into being (apparently by fathering them) the progenitors of the... This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century. ... In the eddic poem Rígthula (Old Norse Rígþula ) Song of Ríg, the name Ríg is applied to a god who is called old and wise, mighty and strong who wandered through the world and brought into being (apparently by fathering them) the progenitors of the... Yngvi, Ingui or Ing appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr, which meant lord. In Scandinavian mythology, Yngvi, alternatively Yngve, was the progenitor of the Yngling lineage, a legendary dynasty of Swedish kings from whom the earliest historical Norwegian kings in turn claimed to be descended... For other uses, see Yngling (disambiguation). ... Dan is the name of one or more legendary kings of the Danes in medieval Scandinavian texts. ...

Druidic Connection?

It has been speculated by some that the Norse drótt served a similar role in the area of religion as that of the Celtic druid and, taken even further, have been claimed to be somewhat of a cognate. DKONG PWNS In Celtic Polytheism, the word Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles. ...

External Sources

• The Masks of Odin by Elsa-Brita Titchenell

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