Thorri

English

Alternative forms

• Þorri

Etymology

From Icelandic þorri.

Proper noun

Thorri

1. 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.