#gunnarr

— - an aesthetic moodboard for Sigfrid Arnòrrson [ @arnorrdottir​ ] and Gunnarr Arnòrrson

if you live to be 100,

       I { h o p e } I live to be 100 minus 1 day,

Gunnarr is a Norse and Icelandic masculine name composed of gunn- (war) and herr (army), cognate with German Gundheri, Anglo-Saxon Guthhere, and Faroese Gundur. The same two elements also occur in Hergunnr.

Variants:

Gonnar [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 130].

Gunnar [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 136].

Gunner [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 136].

Gunnere [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 136].

Gunnarr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page xxxii].

Gunn(h)ar [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 1: 178].

Prototheme:

Gunn- = battle [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 344].

Deuterotheme:

HERR = an army, troops, on land and sea [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 258].

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