Heiðrún
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Usage
Origin and Meaning
Old Norse name
Combination of HEID and RUN [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
| Hedrun | ♀ |  
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| Heidrun | ♀ |  
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| Heiðrun | ♀ | 
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| Heiðrún | ♀ | 
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Grammar
| - Faroese |
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| Nominative: | Heiðrún |
| Accusative: | Heiðrún |
| Dative: | Heiðrún |
| Genitive: | Heiðrúnar |
| - Icelandic |
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| Nominative: | Heiðrún |
| Accusative: | Heiðrúnu |
| Dative: | Heiðrúnu |
| Genitive: | Heiðrúnar |
Further Information
Mythology
Heiðrún is a goat which stands on Valhalla and eats the leaves on the tree Læraðr. Clear mead flows from her udder into the beakers of the Einherjar. In the Hyndluljóð, Hyndla insults Freyja with the remark that she is as sex-mad as Heiðrún. [4]
Statistics
| Name count per country | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
  | as main name# | also aux. name& | as main name# | also aux. name& | |
| Denmark[5] |
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6 | n.a. | 0 | n.a |
| Sweden[6] |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Finland[7] |
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n.a. | 1 | n.a | 1 |
| #: 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 Heiðrún.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
