Nordic Names

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Fornjótr

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Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name of uncertain meaning. Theories include:

1) Old Norse forn-jótr = 'old Jutlander' (see also FORN) [1] [2]

2) Old Norse forn-jǫtunn = 'old giant' (see also FORN and jǫtunn) [1]

3) Old Norse for-njótr = 'previous owner' (see also FOR) [1] [2]

4) Old Norse for-njótr = 'destroyer' (see also FOR) [1]

5) Old Norse forn-þjótr = 'old bellower' (see also FORN) [1]

6) Old Norse forn-njótr = 'delighter in sacrifices' [1]

7) Old Norse fjǫr-jǫtunn = 'life-giant' [1]

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Related Names

Fornjótr ♂
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 Old Norse
Fornjótur ♂
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 Icelandic

Further Information

Norse Mythology

  • Fornjótr is the name of the ancestor of a family (of giants?) in a legendary Norwegian pre-history set at the beginning of the Orkneyinga saga and, somewhat differently, in the Flateyjarbók. He is a king and his three sons are Hlér, Logi and Kari. [1]

Namesakes

  • The transcribed spelling Fornjotr is the name of a moon of Saturn

Statistics

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Country
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name#		also
middle
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name#		also
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Sweden Sweden[3]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[4]
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n.a.
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n.a.
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n.a.
Norway Norway[5]
0
n.a.
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n.a.
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n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Fornjótr.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/


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