fulltrui

See also: fulltrúi

English

Alternative forms

• fulltrúi

Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic fulltrúi (“one who is fully trusted”).

Noun

fulltrui (plural fulltruis)

1. (Germanic paganism) A deity to whom one is wholeheartedly and/or exclusively devoted.
   • 2009, Galina Krasskova, Raven Kaldera, quoting Elizabeth Vongvisith, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner: A Book of Prayer, Devotional Practice, and the Nine Worlds of the Spirit‎^[1], page 175:

     Perhaps my fulltrui and god-husband [Loki] isn’t always the most truthful, but one of the things he has taught me to value is following through once you've said you'll do something.

   • 2013, Patricia M. Lafayllve, A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru‎^[2], page 156:

     Let’s say a person vows to become fulltrui to Frey.

   • 2017, Diana L. Paxson, Odin: Ecstasy, Runes, & Norse Magic‎^[3], unnumbered page:

     He [Odin] does not object to my contacts with other gods; indeed, through me, he seems eager to meet them, but he is my fulltrui, the fully trusted one, with whom (or perhaps I should say for whom) I have now worked for thirty years.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fulltrui.