Grímr

Old Norse

Etymology

Probably derived from Old Norse gríma (“a kind of face mask”), or from Proto-Germanic *Grīmaz.

Proper noun

Grímr m

  1. a male given name, especially one of Óðinn's names

Descendants

  • Icelandic: Grímur
  • Faroese: Grímur

Further reading

  • Jan de Vries (1977) [1957–1960], “Grímr”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 3rd edition, Leiden: E[vert] J[an] Brill, →OCLC., pp. 188f.
  • Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “Grímr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 216
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gríma”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 173; also available at the Internet Archive
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