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English
Etymology
From Icelandic þorri.
Proper noun
Thorri
- The fourth winter month in the Icelandic calendar, running from mid-January to mid-February.
1961, Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, The Atom Station, Vintage, published 2014, page 113:By the month of Þorri, a month which does not in fact exist in towns, I had become quite convinced – and indeed much earlier than that.
1998, Terry G. Lacy, Ring of Seasons, University of Michigan Press, published 2000, page 59:The month of Thorri was followed by Góa, when the farmer often left to go fishing and his wife had to see to managing the household.