#norwegian names

[liliewriter]

need a norwegian name for your wip?

norwegian characters in english books are not that common, in my experience, but still there's some names i love that i really want to share.

for this i have chosen to lean on the newest baby name trend in norway; finding the oldest most norwegian name in your family tree and naming your kid that. this means more common/popular names like ola, ida, magnus, sunniva, etc will not be listed (though i can make a post like that too, if that's something you want to see).

a lot of these have an origin that traces back to the viking age and i tried to avoid names that came after christianity. you'll see it esp in names that have for example bjørn (from old norse for bear), thor/tor (like the god), -hild (from old norse for battle), -mund (from old norse for protection, i'm pretty sure).

i tried to keep to names that either are very rare (less than 10 people share the first name) or that are old and coming back - you have no idea how many church records i just went through to find some good old ones. hope some of these could come to use for some! feel free to message, send an ask, or leave a reply if you have questions about spelling, pronunciations, or anything else.

so, some examples that i found will be below;

traditionally girl's names; ragna, gunhild, dagny, frøydis, ylva, solfrid, snefrid, aagot/ågot, thorbjørg, borgny, odlaug, vigdis, valborg, gunlaug, jensine, gunnvor, halldis, undis, rigmor, ellinor, torunn, elida, embla, signe, gørhild, hege, norlaug, thordis, åshild, solveig

traditionally boys names; hjalmar, njål, brynje, jostein, preben, kyrre, sigvart, gunleif, torjus, oddve, asløv, sverre, vigmund, bjarnar, reidulf, knut, gerhardt, ingeir, guttorm, thormund, ørjan, ådne, aslak, birk, vilje, asbjørn, halvard, ståle, amund

if anyone are interest i can make a more in depth list with the meanings of these names, as i imagine finding the correct definitions with english sources might be difficult for some names. just let me know!

(sidenote, i say "norwegian", but some of these can be used in other scandi countries as well, either with the same spelling or something similar to it.)

scandis, feel free to add your favourite really old people names in replies!<3

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[wh4rlord]

ueghh had a vision

#fear and hunger #fear and hunger fanart #translating 'fear and hunger' in norwegian didnt work for a potential black metal band name #artwork #my art #digital art #enki ankarian #cahara #darce #ragnvaldr

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War

#on memory #on loss #on remembering #web weaving #poetry compilation #haruki murakami #norwegian wood #call me by your name #luca guadagnino #ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #sea wolf #teh garden that you planted #vladimir nabokov #theodore roethke #straw for the fire #the truman show #peter weir #amal el mohtar #this is how you lose the time war #poem #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #words #dark academia poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia #writing #poetry

[little-pup-pip]

25 Days of Agere Moodboards! Day 2: Favorite Stuffie!!

#This is based off of my stuffie Kos! #He's the first one i ever bought with my own money #I named him after a Norwegian word with no real English translation #it basically means a warm or cozy feeling #Kos (pronounced like goose with a K) #anyway this was fun #sfw interaction only #moodboard #sfw agere #age regression #agere #sfw littlespace #agere moodboard #babyre #age dreaming #baby regression #cw food #food cw #food mention #food #25ageremoodboards

[iqrachi]

The mightiest lill wizard ✨ I took the best picture of my lill boy Ask today! The stick he was holding makes him look like a small wizard and I simply just had to draw that <3

#cockatiel #procreate #wizard #and for anyone who is wondering - Ask means ashes in norwegian and that's where he got his name :)

[that-other-blob]

Redraw of an old nyo Norway drawing

I named her Sunniva

#such a basic Norwegian name jfc #it’s the point tho #immortal humans au #hws nyo Norway #nyo norway #Hws norway #hws #Hetalia #hws fanart #Hetalia fanart #nyotalia

[gingermaple]

hermitcraft..... warrior cats..... zombiecleo....

#art #mcyt #hermitcraft #zombiecleo #warrior cats #drawing warrior cats is my comfort art so this was inevitable #she's a norwegian forest cat #so she's very big #still need to think of what her warrior name would be though

[sketchbeelur]

🐜 scout krekling 🫐

#where he lacks skill in anything scout related he makes up in determination #he’ll always make it…in the end #doodles #hes named after a norwegian berry name

[diathadevil]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY GIRL 😭😭😭 I had this whole idea where Ayushiki got a cat later in life and she's a spoiled rotten baby.

#corpse party #ayumi shinozaki #yoshiki kishinuma #ayushiki #fan art #digital art #art #illustration #yes he's made a giant custard caramel pudding for her yes it's absolutely a giant caramel pudding and im so jealous I made it #because i want to EAT IT TOO AUGH #Anyway the cat's name is Her Majesty and she;s a black norwegian forest cat #EDIT: I FORGOT AYUMI'S HAIR BITS STICKING OUT on the first drawing so I updated it 😭😭😭 im a professional

[isbergillustration]

#considering my username everywhere i really don’t draw that many icebergs #which is what the name is in case thats not obvious; norwegian word for iceberg/pun on my name #because while isberg and iceberg are etymologically the same i forgot the english spell ice weird #sketchbook #my art

[teknoctarkamacska]

On the weekend, I finally visited my favourite cattery, Nordic Verden, so here are some pictures we took:

They are norwegian forest cats, so big and fluffy! This was the first time I was able to touch one, I only saw them in pictures and on cat shows before. These three are called Nayeli, Rosita and Nandita.

#macska #cats #norwegian forest cat #nfo #we couldn't catch them for a pic but the cattery have two amber cats too #(a self female called viva and a tabby male called trygg) #they are all beautiful but maybe the ambers are my favourites (oh only if they'd have an amber tortoiseshell!) #(an amber tortoiseshell with lot of white! that would be my dream cat) #naturally they have long official names too: Thuraya's Flirty Nayeli‚ Nordic Verden Rosita Espinosa and Nandita Adsum #nordic verden #my post

[drawingpines]

When the bus is late after you've already been out all day.

#my art #thinking about names for her... #Jessica was the first thought but since she's norwegian that doesn't really work hmm #Stella? Monika? #Hrmm

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

Jostedalsrypa

or The Grouse of Jostedal

As a child obsessed with the plague and disease, Jostedalsrypa was always one of my favourite tales. The utter devastation of society, as well as a girl turned wild bird, really caught my imagination. 

Although the real Jostedal was not wiped out during the Black Death, Norway as a whole was devastated. Many towns and farms were entirely abandoned, and some farms remained empty for around 300 years.

In the time of the black plague, many sought refuge in the remote valley of Jostedalen. They took many precautions and asked their neighbouring towns not to seek them until the sickness had passed. No matter how careful they were though, the plague did come. Later on, some men came into the valley to see how the people fared. They searched each house and found no living soul. Only empty farms and houses, bodies left to rot where they died. Outside a remote farm, they saw little footprints in the snow. A shadow moved between buildings. A scraggly figure, more like a bird than a girl, escaped into the woods. All she could say was "Mor, vesle rypa". Before her mother had died she had laid her daughter in a feather bed, with some food to keep her going. She had lain there so long the feathers had grown into her back.

#black death #jostedalsrypa #plague #middle ages #fairy tale #my art #runes #norwegian history #can the name rjupa/rypa please make a comeback #also yes i left out the ending bc thats just family legend building and idc about that lol #ptarmigan #grouse

[dreamyberry]

Wrote an article about bunads for 17 mai tomorrow! check it out!

#would have drawn more but times up #like a vocab tthing with names in norwegian for all parts of the dress #might update it in the future #bunad #17 mai #norway #norge #norwegian #folk dress #folk costumes #traditional costumes #nordic #scandinavian #european folklore #nordic folklore #scandinavian folklore

[cinemaocd]

I'm doing some geneology research

it turns out I'm Norwegian afterall

#after a lifetime of denial #my great great grandfather krogstad #who I always thought was swedish #turns out to be a norsky #born in norway #member of sons of norway (I have to go to hostfest now I guess :((( #the swede was the lovely guy named ernest gunnar gunnarson #who adopted my grandpa after his father died when he was only 2! #so my grandfather grew up in a house where norwegian and swedish were spoken #but he maintained he was irish until the day he died #and he was #he only own three books and they were all about ireland... #anyway

[roughentumble]

really into the idea of a daemon with the name iðunna/iðunner, old norse meaning "very loved".......

#thatd be ithunna/er/r #there's also þorfinna/er/r #which you could translate as thunder wanderer(badass) #feeling drawn to old norse tho i'll also look at irish and norwegian and old long archaic words #ive never been good at settling on one name for anything and this rn is a passing fancy anyway #daemon named petrichor called petri for short