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Bjorn, Bjorne (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less often a surname. The name means "bear" (the animal).
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
Bear deities (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Mythological bears" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Torbjörn, Thorbjörn, Torbjørn, or Thorbjørn are modern Swedish, Norwegian and Danish forms of the Old Norse and Icelandic name Þorbjörn, meaning thunder (from the name Thor) and bear. Other variants of the name include the Danish/German form Torben and the predominantly German form Thorben.
Adils; Alaric and Eric; Arngrim; Ask and Embla; Aun; Berserkers; Bödvar Bjarki; Dag the Wise; Domalde; Domar; Dyggve; Egil One-Hand; Fafnir; Fjölnir; Gudrun; Harald ...
The Old Norse form of the word was berserkr (plural berserkir), a compound word of ber and serkr.The second part means ' shirt ' (also found in Middle English, see serk).The first part, ber, on the other hand, can mean several things, but is assumed to have most likely meant ' bear ', with the full word, berserkr, meaning just ' bear-shirt ', as in ' someone who wears a coat made out of a bear ...
The name is cognate with the Scandinavian Björn or Bjørn, meaning bear; and the figure of Beorn can be related to the traditional Northern heroes Bödvar Bjarki and Beowulf, both of whose names also mean "bear". [3] [4] The name Beorn survives in the name of the Scottish town Borrowstounness, which is derived from the Old English ...
Norse demons (2 P) T. Trolls (3 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Creatures in Norse mythology" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.