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    what does 'durmstrang' roughly translate to (in English)?

    Just wondering...........this is the name of an educational institute in one of the "Harry Potter" stories.


     

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    "Durmstrang" seems to be a spoonerism for Sturm und Drang, a borrowed German expression meaning "turmoil, ferment"[4] deriving from the name of a highly emotionally driven German artistic movement of the late 1700s, precursor of Romanticism. "Sturm und Drang" literally translates as "tempest and urge" or "charge and rush" but was anglicized as "storm and stress". http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Durmstrang_Institute

    Strang is storm, drang is pressure or stress.



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