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Grímr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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

Proper noun

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Grímr m

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

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: Grímur
  • Faroese: Grímur

Further reading

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  • de Vries, Jan (1977) “Grímr”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, pp. 188f.
  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “Grímr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 216
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gríma”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 173; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
  1. page/173 Internet Archive]