GLUM

Origin and Meaning

glūmr = 'bear' (poet.) ^[1]
glúmr = 'dark expression', 'dark face' (= name for a bear) ^[2]
glúmr = 'bear' ^[3]

glūmen = 'to frown', 'to glower' ^[1]

glum = 'frowning', 'glowering' ^[1]
glyma = 'to frown', 'to glower' ^[1]

Name Element	Example
HILD	see Hildiglúmr

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
↑ Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)