Sunday 1 November 2015

Thor-

Names Derived From "Thor"

Masculine
Thoraalf
Thorfinn
Thorgeir
Thorir
Thorleif
Thorolf
Thorstein
Thorvald

Feminine
Thora
Thordis
Thorgerd
Thorunn

In Mother Of Kings, there are:

2 Thorfinns
2 Thorirs
3 Thorolfs
3 Thorsteins

3 Thoras
3 Thorgerds

1 each of the remaining 6

Thus, 22 individuals with Thor- names, although one is a goddess or valkyrie, not a human being.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Which goes to show that Thor was among the most popular of the Scandinavian pagan gods in pre-Christian Norway and Iceland. New names derived from Christianity came to be used as that faith spread to those lands: "Jon" and "Pal" for "John" and "Paul."

Sean

Jim Baerg said...

Then there is Thorium.

See also in 'Uncleftish Beholding' - Ymirstuff