*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 822

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

enemy to fiend and Devil

Old Norse Christian textual world

fjándi DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Historical and corpus dictionaries document the inherited enemy noun’s demonic branches after Christianization without locating one coinage event.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

A broad textual-semantic interval, not a first-use point or one movement on a map.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. context

    Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — fjándi, masculine noun

    Documents multiple distinct supernatural branches in the prose corpus.

    Senses 2–5, demonic and Christian usesAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    An Icelandic-English Dictionary — fjándi

    Publishes the relative semantic chronology.

    Senses 1–2: enemy; after the introduction of Christianity, fiendAUDIT SOURCE ↗