[#1179] Dragunen??

[Gjest Susan Barham]

One of my great great grandmother's cousin is listed as being a "Trompeter ved dragunen" in the 1801 Census. This is a trumpeter, a horn player? And what does dragunen mean?

[Gjest Yngve Nedrebø]

The word "dragun" had its origin from greek, and being the same word as the English "dragon". In Norwegian it meant a soldier (once upon the time used about the soldiers with a dragon as their sign), and after some time it meant only soldiers in the Cavalry.So the "Trompeter ved dragunen" was a horn player with the Cavalry.

[Gjest Stein N. Wisted]

Sorry, not to be nit-picking, but the English word is dragoon, dragon beeing something else ;-)

[Gjest Tor Andersen]

being

[Gjest Yngve Nedrebø]

The English words dragon and dragoon have the same origin!The dragoons originally used the dragon as their sign.