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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gunþiz.
Noun
guðr f (genitive gunnar, dative and accusative gunni)
- battle, war
Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál),
Þorbjǫrn hornklofi:
- grenjuðu berserkir
guðr vas þeim á sinnum- the berserks howled
battle was under way for them
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gunnr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive