Editing Trow (folklore) (section)

=== drow ===
The trow is also called '''drow''' under its variant spelling in the [[Insular Scots|Insular dialects]] of Scots;<ref name="snd-drow"/> the "drow" being mentioned by [[Walter Scott]].{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Scott (1835) ''Demonology'', p. 122: "Possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed by the natives of [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland Islands|Zetland Islands]], to the people called Drows, who may, in most other respects, be identified with the [[Caledonia]]n fairies".<ref name="snd-drow"/>}}<ref name="scott"/> However, the term "drow" could also be used in the sense of ‘the [[devil]]’ in Orkney.<ref name="snd-drow"/>{{Refn|name=jakobsen-trow|{{Cite wikisource|last=Jakobsen |first=Jakob |author-link=Jakob Jakobsen |title=An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland |publisher=David Nutt (A. G. Berry) |year=1928 |wslink=An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/D|volume=I |wspage=129 |page=129 }} Cf. Jakobsen (1921) in orig. Danish.<ref name="jakobsen-drow"/>}}

The word ''drow'' also occurs in the Shetland [[Norn language]], where it means ‘''huldrefolk''’("the hidden people", fairies), ‘troll-folk’,<ref name="jakobsen-drow"/> or ‘ghost’.<ref name="korobzow"/> As ''drow'' is not a Norse language spelling, linguist [[Jakob Jakobsen]] proposed it was taken from the common (Scots) term "trow" altered to ''drow'' by assimilation with [[Old Norse]] {{lang|non|{{linktext|draugr}}}} or Norwegian {{lang|no|draug}}.<ref name="jakobsen-drow"/> The reconstructed Shetland word would be *drog if it did descend from Old Norse ''draugr'', but this is unattested, nor was it adopted into the [[Nynorn]] vocabulary to supersede the known form.<ref name="korobzow"/>