Name index

Names are always special. They determine people's personality, character, behavior and sometimes even destiny.
 

• Torgeir – [TOR-geyr] – “Thor's spear” (Old Norse).
• Ari – [AH-ree] – “eagle” (Old Norse).
• Orm – “snake” (Old Norse).
• Advar – [ahd-VAHR] – “reach guard” (Old English).
• Helgi – [HEH-lgee] – “blessed, holy” (Old Norse).
• Halvdan – [HALF-dahn] – “half Dane” (Old Norse).
• Gudmund – [GOOD-moond] – “god’s protection” (Old Norse).
• Turid – [too-REED] – “beautiful” (Old Norse).
• Olaf – [OH-lahf] – “ancestor’s descendant” (Old Norse).
• Hrafn – “raven” (Old Norse). According to different sources, it can be pronounced as [RAPN] or [RAFN].
• Harald – [HAH-rahlt] – “leader of the army” (Old Norse and Old English).
• Örjan – [OE-rjan] – “farmer, earth worker” (Ancient Greek).
• Ottar – [OH-tar] – “wealthy” (Old Germanic).
• Kirk – “church” (Ancient Greek).
• Sveinn – [SVEN] – “boy” (Old Norse).
• Siv – “bride” (Old Norse). Siv was the wife of Thor in Norse mythology.
• Eydis – [EY-dees] – “goddess of good fortune” (Old Norse).
• Asta – [AH-stah] – “goddess of beauty” (Old Norse).
• Knut – [KNOOT] – “knot” (Old Norse).
• Idunn – [ee-DOON] – “love again” (Old Norse). Iðunn was the goddess of immortality and spring. She was responsible for guarding of the gods' apples of youth.
• Ulfrich – [OOLF-reek] – “wolf’s rule” (Old Germanic).
• Jari – [YAH-ree] – a short form of Hjálmarr “helmeted warrior” (Old Norse).
• Leif – [LAYF] – “descendant, heir” (Old Norse).
• Vali – [VA-li] – “foreigner” (Old Norse).