guðr
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *gunþiz.
Noun edit
guðr f (genitive gunnar, dative and accusative gunni)
- battle, war
- Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál), Þorbjǫrn hornklofi :
- grenjuðu berserkir
guðr vas þeim á sinnum- the berserks howled
battle was under way for them
- the berserks howled
- grenjuðu berserkir
Declension edit
Declension of guðr (strong ijō-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: guður
References edit
- “gunnr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press