Grímr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editProbably derived from Old Norse gríma (“a kind of face mask”).
Proper noun
editGrímr m
- a male given name, especially one of Óðinn's names
References
edit- de Vries, Jan (1977) “Grímr”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, pp. 188f.
- “Grímr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874), p. 216.
- “gríma”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 173.