Gríðr

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse gríð = 'vehemence, greed, eagerness' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

2) Old Norse grið = 'peace, protection, mercy, truce' ^[1]

Related Names

Grid	♀
Gríð	♀
Gríðr	♀

Combinations

For combination see GRID (name element)

Further Information

Mythology

In the Norse Mythology, Gríðr is a giantess. She has a son Víðarr by Óðinn. Gríðr is one of the exceptional cases of a friendly giantess. ^{[4] [5]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[7]		0	0	0	0
Finland[8]		0	0	0	0
#: 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 Gríðr.

Sources: ^{[7] [6] [9] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
3. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
4. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
5. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no