Grímr
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably derived from Old Norse gríma (“a kind of face mask”), or from Proto-Germanic *Grīmaz.
Proper noun
[edit]Grímr m
- a male given name, especially one of Óðinn's names
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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
- page/173 Internet Archive]