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Old Norse
Etymology
According to Otterbjörk, originally a byname, from þróndr (“man from Trøndelag (a region in Norway)”).
According to Vågslid, from the stem of the Old Norse verb þróask (“to prosper”).
Proper noun
Þróndr m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Throwend
1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, page 89:Maðr hét Þróndr Mió-beinn; hann for til Íslannz með Geirmunde Hjeljar-skinne; hann var ættaðr af Ogðom. Þróndr nam eyjar fyr vestan Biarneyja-floa, ok bió í Flatey.- There was a man called Throwend Slim-leg. He went out to Iceland with Gar-mund Hell-skin. His race came out of Agd. Throwend took in settlement the islands to the west of Bearney-floe, and dwelt at Flat-ey.
Descendants
References
- ^ Roland Otterbjörk, Svenska förnamn, Stockholm 1964
- ^ Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN