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From skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell" [29] or from skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [29] The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland.
The Old Norse name Ægir ('sea') may stem from a Proto-Germanic form *āg w i-jaz ('that of the river/water'), [1] itself a derivative of the stem *ahwō-('river'; cf. Gothic aƕa 'body of water, river', Old English ēa 'stream', Old High German aha 'river'). [2] Richard Cleasby and Guðbrandur Vigfússon saw his name as deriving from an ...
Name Meaning Notes Blóðughadda "Bloody-hair" [1] According to scholar John Lindow this name "[refers] to reddish foam atop a wave". [1] Scholar Rudolf Simek says that "the name does not appear to be too appropriate for a wave, but perhaps it was supposed to convey the wispy, thread-like appearance of the water streaming from the crest of the wave."
Laguz or *Laukaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the l-rune ᛚ, *laguz meaning "water" or "lake" and *laukaz meaning "leek". In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called lagu "ocean". In the Younger Futhark, the rune is called lögr "waterfall" in Icelandic and logr "water" in Norse.
The names are held to derive from Common Germanic *nikwus or *nikwis(i), derived from PIE *neigʷ ("to wash"). [3] They are related to Sanskrit nḗnēkti, Greek νίζω nízō and νίπτω níptō, and Irish nigh (all meaning to wash or be washed). [4] The form neck appears in English and Swedish (näck, definite form näcken). [4]
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Solomon — Hebrew name meaning “peace.” 101. Tannon — This German name means “fir tree”—like the Christmas song “O Tannenbaum.” 102. Tate — A Norse name meaning “cheerful.” 103.
Njörd's desire of the Sea (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. In Norse mythology, Njörðr (Old Norse: Njǫrðr) is a god among the Vanir.Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, [1] lives in Nóatún and is associated with the sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.