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Geirr Bassi defines <þrymr> as "loud noise, alarm" | Geirr Bassi defines <þrymr> as "loud noise, alarm" | ||
Finnur Jónsson ([http://www.facebook.com/l/7AQE6aglW/books.google.com/books?id=KWkSAAAAYAAJ| http://books.google.com/books?id=KWkSAAAAYAAJ][[http://www.facebook.com/l/pAQGQBm_E/heimskringla.no/wiki/Tilnavne_i_den_islandske_oldlitteratur| http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Tilnavne_i_den_islandske_oldlitteratur]) gives the bynames <þrymr>, <þrumr> and also the prefixed bynames <þrym-> and <Þrum-> and defines this as "calm and silent".</span> | Finnur Jónsson ([http://www.facebook.com/l/7AQE6aglW/books.google.com/books?id=KWkSAAAAYAAJ|http://books.google.com/books?id=KWkSAAAAYAAJ][[http://www.facebook.com/l/pAQGQBm_E/heimskringla.no/wiki/Tilnavne_i_den_islandske_oldlitteratur|http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Tilnavne_i_den_islandske_oldlitteratur]) gives the bynames <þrymr>, <þrumr> and also the prefixed bynames <þrym-> and <Þrum-> and defines this as "calm and silent".</span> | ||
Geirr Bassi got his definition from the Cleasby-Vigfusson Old Icelandic dictionary ([http://www.facebook.com/l/8AQEqdCUC/www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html| http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html], see p.747), which has some related terms that appear to have led GB astray: | Geirr Bassi got his definition from the Cleasby-Vigfusson Old Icelandic dictionary ([http://www.facebook.com/l/8AQEqdCUC/www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html|http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html], see p.747), which has some related terms that appear to have led GB astray: | ||
* þrymr (masc. noun) "an alarm, noise" | * þrymr (masc. noun) "an alarm, noise" |