Gudrun is a feminine given name of Old Norse origin derived from guð or goð, meaning "god"; and rūn, meaning "rune", or "secret lore". Gudrun, the Danish...
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Guðrún is a feminine given name. The English and German version of the name is Gudrun. It is one of the most frequently given female names in Iceland....
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feminine given name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the root ḥ-n-n, meaning "favour" or "grace". A Dictionary of First Names attributes the name to a...
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Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's...
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Gudrun (/ˈɡʊdruːn/ GUUD-roon; Old Norse: Guðrún) or Kriemhild (/ˈkriːmhɪlt/ KREEM-hilt; Middle High German: Kriemhilt) is the wife of Sigurd/Siegfried...
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also refer to: Gudrun (given name) Guðrún, an Icelandic given name (includes variants such as Gudrun) Kudrun, also known as Gudrun, a German medieval epic...
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feminine given name of Icelandic origin meaning buttercup. The name is also in use in the Faroe Islands. The name is a diminutive for the Faroese name Sólja...
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names are the football player Heiðar Helguson ("Helga's son"), the novelist Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir ("Minerva's daughter"), and the medieval poet Eilífr Goðrúnarson...
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Brunhild (category Germanic given names)
her desire to have Siegfried murdered is a quarrel with the hero's wife, Gudrun or Kriemhild. In the Scandinavian tradition, but not in the continental...
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Brynhild is a Norwegian feminine given name, a form of the German Brunhild, a heroine of Germanic heroic legend. It may refer to: Brynhild Berge (1901–1975)...
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Johanna (category Given names)
the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, a.k.a. Yohanna, Icelandic singer Johanna Omolo (born 1989),...
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also occurs as the name of Högni's son in the eddic poem Atlamál, and as a term for the children born by Gunnar's sister Gudrún (Guðrún) to Atli (Attila...
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Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (born 1990), Icelandic singer, known as Yohanna Yohannan This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the...
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a book containing two narrative poems and related texts composed by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published...
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This is the old Swedish name day calendar, sanctioned by the Swedish Academy in 1901, with official status until 1972. Some days still refer to traditional...
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Völsunga saga (section Guðrún and the Budlingar)
Years later, Brynhild and Guðrún are arguing about whose husband is better, and Guðrún shows her the ring which Brynhild had given Sigurd. Brynhild recognizes...
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ISBN 9780199684335. Gudrun Krämer (2008) A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel Translated by Gudrun Krämer and...
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Anne (redirect from Ann (name))
American actress and comedian Anne Mee (1765–1851), British artist Anne-Gudrun Meier-Scherling (1906–2002), German lawyer Anne Meiwald (born 1995), English...
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Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (2 January 1918 – 13 December 2019) was a German book-binder, calligrapher and typographer. She also designed several typefaces....
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Ildico (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
weeping beneath her veil." In Germanic heroic legends, she corresponds to Guðrún/Kriemhild, and in the Norse versions she deliberately killed Attila, in...
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Katrín (category Given names)
Katrín is a feminine given name. It is an Icelandic form of Katherine. Notable people with the name include: Guðrún Katrín Þorbergsdóttir, the First Lady...
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Ulrich (category Given names)
(1856), 980f. Skálholtsbók; see Guðrún P. Helgadóttir, Hrafns Saga Sveinbjarnarsonar (1987), p. 87. Zwingli's given name was Ulrich, but he used the latinized...
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Sigurd is portrayed as dying as the result of a quarrel between his wife (Gudrun/Kriemhild) and another woman, Brunhild, whom he has tricked into marrying...
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Sigríður (category Given names)
Sigríður is one of the most frequently given female names in Iceland. In 2004, it was ranked third behind Anna and Guðrún. According to Icelandic custom, people...
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Gunther (category German masculine given names)
Gunnar. Some time later, Gudrun and Brynhild quarrel about whether Sigurd or Gunnar has the highest rank at the court. Gudrun then reveals the deception...
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The ten to whom Paradise was promised (section Names)
Anthony, Sean W. (2018). "Ibn Masʿūd, ʿAbdallāh". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of...
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Basmala (redirect from In the Name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate)
Graham, William A. (2010). "Basmala". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of...
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fiöll in the Skírnismál. The names of his Dwarves derive from the Dvergatal in the Vǫluspá. His Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a verse retelling or reconstruction...
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Gudrun Corvinus (1932–2006) was a German geologist, paleontologist and archaeologist. Her contributions through her field work, academic monologues and...
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11th century CE. The saga particularly focuses on a love triangle between Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Kjartan Ólafsson and Bolli Þorleiksson. Kjartan and Bolli...
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