- The use of
grimmR and the
later form grim in the
sense "lord" has only a few
occurrences from Sweden. In
extant Icelandic material grimmr only appears...
- Old Norse, the
basic meaning of the
adjective grimmr is "heartless,
strict and wicked", and so
grimmr is
comparable in
semantics to Old
Norse gramr which...
- magic.
Reginn .. var
hverjum manni hagari ok
dvergr of vöxt. Hann var vitr,
grimmr, ok fjölkunnigr. The
Prose Edda (Skáldskaparmál 46)
identifies the father...
- German:
Balmunc Gramr means "king" or "warrior" and is
connected to the word
grimmr meaning "ferocity", "sternness" or "wrath" (cf. folksgrimmr).
Balmung is...
- Old Norse, the
basic meaning of the
adjective grimmr is "heartless,
strict and wicked", and so
grimmr is
comparable in
semantics to Old
Norse gramr which...
- fornyrðislag, and it
contains a
virtually unique use of the Old
Norse word
grimmr ('cruel') in the
sense "commander". Áskell's
title folksgrimmr may be the...
-
Probably derived from Old
Norse gríma (“a kind of face mask”). Old
Norse <
grimmr > ”
fierce ” WiKtionary : Old
English <
grimm > " fierce, savage, terrible...
-
element is grímr
which means "mask", but it may have been
conflated with
grimmr meaning "cruel". In the U-version of
Hervarar saga, Hergrímr
kidnaps Ogn2...
-
means "eagle", and grímr
means "mask", but it may have been
conflated with
grimmr meaning "cruel". A berserker.
Depending on the
version he
either kills Svafrlami...
- Cognates:
Occitan grima 'sadness', Spanish,
Catalan grima 'shiver, horror', ON
grimmr 'grim, stern', OHG grim id. Derivatives:
grimoso 'annoying, disgusting'...
