Gizur

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

Origin and Meaning

The etymology of the name is not known for sure: one has him * gitsa (< * getison ) of a verb " guess guess" derived and interpreted in terms of " Riddler " in the name but with the suffix - urr a Scandinavian custom form of the Gothic name Gaisareiks ( Genseric ) suspected.

Bearers of the name

Variant Gizur

  • Odin, in two manuscripts with fragments of Snorra Edda (AM 748 and 757) listed surnamed Gizurr, also in the Íslendinga Saga of Sturla Þórðarson ( 1214-1284 ) and in the Málsháttakvæði of Bjarni Kolbeinsson († 1223 ).
  • Gizur, King of Gauts, mentioned as the second of six rulers in a captured in the Hervarar saga of Snorra Edda Verskatalog ( Ár kváðu ... / Gizur Gautum [ RADA ]: "Once, they say, ... / [ reigned ] Gizur the Gauts ").
  • Gizur Grýtingaliði, in the Battle of the Huns song ( Hlöðskviða ) the Hervarar saga of care or foster father ( fóstri ) of the Gothic king Heidrek, where it causes the rift between his sons Angantyr and Hlöðr and support ANGANTYR in the fight against the Huns led by his half-brother. In research, he was sometimes identified with the Gautenkönig Gizur and sometimes interpreted as a " disguised Odin".
  • Gizur Teitsson, Hvide ( " the white man " ) called pagan chieftain of Skálholt, instrumental in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland and father of Isleifur Gizurarson ( 1006-1080 ), the first Christian bishop of Iceland.
  • Gizur Gullbrárskáld, also Gizur Svarti ( " the Black " ) called one of the bards in the wake of Olaf the Saint, killed at the Battle of Stiklestad ( 1030), only known by a song in the Snorra Edda, the poet him as a friend and teacher boasts that it " often led to the holy cup of Odin ", that is, have guided the densities.
  • Gizur Hallson († July 27, 1206 ), Icelandic scholar and 1181-1200 laws speaker ( Løgmaður ) King Sverre Sigurdsson, undertook journeys to Rome and Southern Europe and should also have written a non-received report entitled Flos Peregrinationis.

Variant Gissur

  • Gissur Einarsson (* 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), as his father Isleifur Gissurarson educated in the Westphalian monastery Herford and 1082-1118 as his successor, second bishop of Iceland, the Church gave his paternal family farm Skálholt, which thus received its first land on Iceland
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