Re: Hell(en)ish oddities
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 1, 2000, 13:32 |
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At 19:40 2000-11-22 -0500, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>That name, however, is exclusively Icelandic, being one among a series of
>very common Icelandic names starting with "Gud-", meaning 'God'. The name
>is kind of obscure, but I guess it kind of means "Bathed by God". The most
>common is "Gudmundur", "Weapon of God".
"Gudmund" is, or was, used in peninsular Scandinavian too.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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