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Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Eggthér: blade servant, eagle: None attested: None attested: Völuspá: Elldridr: Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Eimgeitir: fire goat, smoke goat: None attested: None attested: Nafnaþulur: Eistla 'the stormy one', 'the glowing one' None attested
Pages in category "Norwegian feminine given names" The following 153 pages are in this category, out of 153 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál provide lists of valkyrie names. Other valkyrie names appear solely outside these lists, such as Sigrún (who is attested in the poems Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II).
Pages in category "Old Norse personal names" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ásleikr; E.
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Lágr (as in Láganes) means "low", [209] whereas Sága (as in á nesi Ságu) was the name of a Norse goddess. [210] In the Völsunga saga and Helgakvíða Hundingsbana I, Sinfjötli says that he made Granmar/Gudmund pregnant with nine wolves in the location. [119] [211] Læsø: Old Norse: Hlésey: The name means "leeward island".
The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær.Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers.
Norse goddesses (4 C, 10 P) Gýgjar (1 C, 28 P) N. Norns (9 P, 1 F) V. Valkyries (2 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Female supernatural figures in Norse mythology"