Gylfi

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of GylfiR

Related Names

See GylfiR

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gylfason

Female

Gylfadóttir

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Gylfi
Accusative:	Gylfa
Dative:	Gylfa
Genitive:	Gylfa

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Mythology

• Gylfi is a sea king / sea-giant. He gives Gefjon a piece of ploughland which she then ploughs free from Sweden, thus creating the island of Sjælland (Zealand)

• According to Snorri, Gylfi was the name of the mythical Swedish king who ruled the country when Óðinn arrived in Sweden. Gylfi took over the lordship from the Æsir.

• The first part of the Snorra Edda is Gylfaginning ('the deception of Gylfi').

Trivia

• Gylfi is also used as an Icelandic horse name

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Iceland		346	430	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		8	11	0	0	8	11
Denmark		7	n.a.	0	n.a.	7	n.a.
Norway		5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	5	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1	0	0	n.a.	1
Greenland		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.

 

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