Grímr

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Old Norse

Etymology

Probably derived from Old Norse gríma (a kind of face mask), or from Proto-Germanic *Grīmaz.

Proper noun

Grímr m

  1. a male given name, especially one of Óðinn's names

Descendants

  • Icelandic: Grímur
  • Faroese: Grímur

References

  • de Vries, Jan (1977) “Grímr”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, pp. 188f.
  • “Grímr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874), p. 216.
  • gríma”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 173.