Throwend
English
editEtymology
editCalque of Old Norse Þróndr, based on Throwends, from Old English Þrōwendas.
Proper noun
editThrowend
- A male given name, equivalent to Old Norse Þróndr
- 1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, page 89:
- 4. There was a man called Throwend Slim-leg. He went out to Iceland with Gar-mund Hell-skin. His race came out of Agd.
Throwend took in settlement the islands to the west of Bearney-floe, and dwelt at Flat-ey.