Heimdallr

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name

Combination of HEIM and DALL ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Heimdali	♂
Heimdallr	♂
Heimdalr	♂

Further Information

Mythology

Heimdallr is one of the Æsir in Norse mythology, the guardian of the gods.

His father is Óðinn and his mothers are nine sisters, one of them is Atla.

He lives in Himinbjǫrg near Bifrǫst and sits at the end of the sky guarding the bridge against the mountain giants. He needs less sleep than a bird and can see things 100 miles off whether it is day or night, and he can hear the grass growing on the earth and the wool on sheep and everything else which is louder than that. His teeth are made of gold.

His deadly enemy is Loki and they both kill each other at the Ragnarǫk

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Heimdallr's Attributes

His horn Gjallarhorn = 'loud sounding horn' (which can be herd throughout the world)
His sword Hǫfuð = 'man-head'
His horse Gulltopr = 'golden mane'
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Heimdallr's Names

Rígr = 'king'
Hallinskiði = 'the one with the lop-sided horns' or 'the inclining rod (= 'beam of sunlight')' or 'axis of the world' or 'rock cleft, crevice'
Gullintanni = 'golden tooth'

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Statistics

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Heimdallr.

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
2. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
3. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi