Gizur

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Gizur , also Gizurr or Gissur , is an Old Norse and Icelandic male personal name.

Origin and meaning

The etymology of the name has not been clarified with certainty: it was derived from a verb * gitsa (< * getison ) "guess, guess" with the suffix -urr and interpreted in the sense of "riddle master", but the name also has a Scandinavian form the Gothic name Gaisareiks ( Geiserich ) suspected.

Name bearer

Variant of Gizur

  • Odin , listed in two manuscripts with fragments of the Snorra Edda (AM 748 and 757) with the nickname Gizurr, also in the Íslendinga saga of Sturla Þórðarson (1214–1284) and in the Málsháttakvæði by Bjarni Kolbeinsson († 1223).
  • Gizur, King of the Gauten , is mentioned as the second of six rulers in a verse catalog included in the Hervarar saga of the Snorra Edda ( Ár kváðu ... / Gizur Gautum [ ráða ]: “Once, they say ... / [ruled ] Gizur die Gauten ”).
  • Gizur Grýtingaliði , in the Hunnenschlachtlied ( Hlöðskviða ) of the Hervarar saga, the foster or foster father (fóstri) of the Gothic king Heidrek , causes the rift between his sons Angantýr and Hlöðr and supports Angantýr in the fight against the Huns led by his half- brothers . In research he was sometimes identified with the Gautenkönig Gizur and sometimes interpreted as "Odin in disguise".
  • Gizur Teitsson , called Hvide (“the white”), pagan chief of Skálholt , played a key role in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland and father of Ísleifur Gizurarson (1006-1080), the first Christian bishop of Iceland.
  • Gizur Gullbrárskáld, also called Gizur svarti ("the black one"), one of the skalds in the entourage of Olaf the saint , killed in the battle of Stiklestad (1030), known only from a song in the Snorra Edda , whose poet made him a friend and Teacher praises who “often led him to the holy cup of Odin”, that is, instructed him to write poetry.
  • Gizur Hallson († July 27, 1206), Icelandic scholar and 1181-1200 law spokesman (Løgmaður) King Sverre Sigurdssons , undertook trips to Rome and southern Europe and is said to have written a non-preserved report with the title Flos Peregrinationis .

Variant of Gissur

  • Gissur Einarsson (* around 1512; † March 24, 1548 in Skálholt), from 1540 Bishop of Skálholt in the south of Iceland and at the same time the first Lutheran bishop in the country
  • Gissur Ísleifsson (* 1042, † 1118), like his father Ísleifur Gissurarson raised in the Westphalian monastery of Herford and from 1082–1118 as his successor as the second bishop of Iceland, gave the church his paternal estate, Skálholt, which received its first real estate in Iceland
  • Gissur Þorvaldsson, former son-in-law of Snorri Sturluson , who killed this and some of his sons on behalf of King Håkon on September 23, 1241; later he was appointed the new Jarl in Iceland by King Håkon

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jan de Vries: Old Norse etymological dictionary , Brill, Leiden 1977, p. 168 f.
  2. ↑ Alexander Jóhannesson: Icelandic Etymological Dictionary , Francke, Bern 1956, p. 344
  3. ↑ Jan de Vries: Old Norse Literary History , 3rd unchanged. Edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999 (= Grundriss der Germanischen Philologie, 15/16; ISBN 3-11-016330-6 ), p. 71, note 13
  4. ↑ Walther Steller: Fundamentals of German Historical Research , Volume 1, Volkstum-Verlag Landig, Vienna / Munich 1973, ISBN 3-85342-021-4 , p. 143
  5. ↑ a b Otto Höfler: Did the Heidrek saga understand the Hunnenschlachtlied correctly? (1984), in: Otto Höfler: Kleine Schriften , Buske, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-87548-015-5 , p. 417ff., P. 419
  6. ↑ Jan de Vries: Altnordische Literaturgeschichte (1999), p. 18
  7. ↑ Jan de Vries: Altnordische Literaturgeschichte (1999), p. 261f.
  8. ^ Rudolf Siemek: Old Norse Cosmography: Studies and Sources on World View and Description of the World in Norway and Iceland from the 12th to the 14th Century , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990 (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Supplementary Volume 4; ISBN 3-11 -012181-6 ), p. 293ff.