Þróndr

Old Norse

Alternative forms
  • Þrándr

Etymology

According to Otterbjörk,[1] originally a byname, from þróndr (“man from Trøndelag (a region in Norway)”). According to Vågslid,[2] from the stem of the Old Norse verb þróask (“to prosper”).

Proper noun

Þróndr m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Throwend
    • 1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, page 89:
      Maðr hét Þróndr Mió-beinn; hann for til Íslannz með Geirmunde Hjeljar-skinne; hann var ættaðr af Ogðom. Þróndr nam eyjar fyr vestan Biarneyja-floa, ok bió í Flatey.
      There was a man called Throwend Slim-leg. He went out to Iceland with Gar-mund Hell-skin. His race came out of Agd. Throwend took in settlement the islands to the west of Bearney-floe, and dwelt at Flat-ey.

Descendants
  • Icelandic: Þrándur
  • Faroese: Tróndur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Trond, Trånd
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Trond, Trånd
  • Old Swedish: Thrōnd
  • Old Danish: Thrōnd

References
  1. Roland Otterbjörk, Svenska förnamn, Stockholm 1964
  2. Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN
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