Grímr

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

Further reading

• 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 Internet Archive