Gudrun (name)
Gudrun is a female given name of Germanic origin.
Origin and meaning
It is made up of the Old High German gunt (fight) and rúna (secret). Since it became known and the spread of Germanic legends in the Romantic era (19th century), it has been revived as a woman's name.
name day
The name day is January 8th , memorial day of St. Gudula .
variants
- Gudrun , German, Scandinavian
- Gudrune ( subsidiary form of Gudrun)
- Gutrune (subsidiary form of Gudrun)
- Guðrún , Icelandic (with namesake)
- Guðrun , Faroese
Short form:
Name bearers
Mythological and literary characters
- In Norse mythology, Gudrun is Sigurd's wife .
- Main character of the third part of the medieval Kudrun legend
- Figure in the Nibelungen saga
- In the notation Gutrune a character in Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung
First name
- Gudrun Abt (* 1962), German athlete
- Gudrun Brug (* 1949), German writer
- Gudrun Corvinus (1931–2006), German geologist, paleontologist and prehistorian
- Gudrun Deubener (1931–2009), German screenwriter and scenarioist
- Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977), member of the RAF
- Gudrun Fey (* 1943), German speaker, rhetoric trainer, non-fiction author and entrepreneur
- Gudrun Gabriel (* 1955), Austrian actress
- Gudrun Genest (1914–2013), German actress
- Gudrun Gundelach (* 1942), German actress
- Gudrun Gut (* 1957), German musician, DJ, presenter and music producer
- Gudrun Harrer (* 1959), Austrian journalist and Middle East expert
- Gudrun Inboden (* 1942), German art historian and museum curator
- Gudrun Kopp (* 1950), German politician (FDP)
- Gudrun Kugler (born Lang; * 1976), Austrian politician
- Gudrun Landgrebe (* 1950), German actress
- Gudrun Loewe (1914–1994), German prehistorian
- Gudrun Marci-Boehncke (* 1963), German literary scholar and media researcher
- Gudrun Okras (1929–2009), German actress
- Gudrun Pausewang (1928–2020), German writer
- Gudrun Reinboth (* 1943), German writer
- Gudrun Ritter (* 1936), German film and theater actress and radio play speaker
- Gudrun Schyman (* 1948), Swedish politician and feminist
- Gudrun Sjödén (* 1941), Swedish fashion designer
- Gudrun Thielemann (* 1926), German actress
- Gudrun Vaupel (* 1941), German voice actress and actress
- Gudrun Wagner (1944–2007), co-organizer of the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth
- Gudrun Ziebold (* 1947), German badminton player
For women who bear the name Guðrún see there.
Further use
- (328) Gudrun , an asteroid
- Hurricane Gudrun , a hurricane
Similar names
To be distinguished from: