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  2. Category:Norwegian feminine given names - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Sigrid - Wikipedia

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    Sigrid / ˈ s iː ɡ r ɪ d / is a Scandinavian given name for women from Old Norse Sigríðr, composed of the elements sigr "victory" and fríðr "beautiful". [1] Common short forms include Siri, Sigga, Sig, and Sigi. An Estonian and Finnish variant is Siiri. The Latvian version of the name is Zigrīda.

  4. Siri (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Siri is a Scandinavian feminine given name.It is a short form of Sigrid, from Old Norse Sigríðr, composed of the elements sigr "victory" and fríðr "beautiful". The variant Siri has been widely used since the Middle Ages, [citation needed] it was common in Norway until the 18th century, when its usage declined, but saw new high popularity in the 20th century.

  5. List of valkyrie names - Wikipedia

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    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 ).

  6. Freyja - Wikipedia

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    The name Freyja transparently means 'lady, mistress' in Old Norse. [1] Stemming from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun * frawjōn ('lady, mistress'), it is cognate with Old Saxon frūa ('lady, mistress') or Old High German frouwa ('lady'; cf. modern German Frau). Freyja is also etymologically close to the name of the god Freyr, meaning 'lord' in ...

  7. Category:Scandinavian feminine given names - Wikipedia

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  8. Tove - Wikipedia

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    Some believe the name to be a shortening of Þorfríðr, whose elements are the deity-name Thor and Old Norse fríðr 'beautiful'. [2] [3] [4] Tófa and Tófi appear to have been relatively popular names in the 10th and 11th centuries and are found in Anglo-Scandinavian court witness lists [5] and later in the Domesday Book [6] in their Latinised form.

  9. Ingrid (given name) - Wikipedia

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    It continues the Old Norse name Ingiríðr, which was a short form of Ingfríðr, composed of the theonym Ing and the element fríðr "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. [1] The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant Ingerid , Ingris or Ingfrid ; short forms Inga, Inger, Ingri ) remains widely given in all of ...