Alsviðr

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Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name

Combination of ALA and SWIND

Related Names

Alsviðr

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Further Information

Norse Mythology

Alsviðr and Árvakr are the names of two horses mentioned in Grímnismál, Sigrdrífumál, Þulur and Gylfaginning: "A man called Mundilfari had two children; they were so fair and beautiful that he called his son Máni and his daughter Sól; he married his daughter to a man named Glenr. The gods, however, were angry about his arrogance and they took the brother and sister and set them in the sky and made Sól drive the horses which pulled the chariot of the sun which the gods had created from a spark which had flown from Múspellsheimr to illuminate the world. These horses were called Árvakr and Alsviðr. The ods fastened two bellows beneath the shoulders of the horses to cool them and in som sources that is called the ironblast."

Alsviðr is also the name of a jǫtunn mentioned in the Hávamál

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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&
Sweden		0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	0	0	0	0	0
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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