Naddodd

Naddoddur ( * before 850 in Agder / Norway) was one of the first settlers on the Faroe Islands. According to tradition, he discovered Iceland.

The Icelandic Landnámabók according to which he was a Norwegian refugee who found his new home in the Faroe Islands. This was therefore the first land acquisition wave, is considered the pioneer Grímur Kamban.

One day (around 850) it should be from a trip to Norway back to the Faroe Islands in a storm that took him off and his people from the course. The coast, which they saw then, proved to be a great country. They went in Reyðarfjörður ashore, climbed a mountain and stopped looking for people, but the country seemed uninhabited. When she stood again in the fall in the lake to get to the Faroe Islands, it began to snow heavily. So he named the land Snæland (snow country). Only later it became Ísland ( Eisland ).

On his return to the Faroe spread the news of the new land in the northwest like wildfire, and in the next few years attracted about 1,000 people there, including Naddods three sons Brynjolvur, Mar and Beinir.

Maybe Naddoddur is also the father of Ann Naddodsdóttir which was perhaps the mother of Beinir and Brestir, and thus the grandmother of Sigmundur Brestisson and Tori Beinirsson, central figures of the Faroese.

Some scholars are of the opinion that Naddoddur was the first European who came to North America, already 150 years before Leif Eriksson.

Name

Naddoddur is one of the Faroese name, it is only in the Faroe Islands. It is made up as follows: nadd - Oddur. Oddur means tip and is by itself a Faroese first name. The prefix nadd also means peak in Faroese ( naddi ), but also spear in Old Norse. Naddoddur could thus be translated as spearhead, but more likely with " spear - Oddur ," especially since his brother Øksna - called Thor, so " Axe Thor".

The name appears in Faroese as bent follows:

  • Nominative: Naddoddur
  • Accusative: Naddodd
  • Dating: Naddoddi
  • Genitive: Naddods

Other spellings of the historic Naddoddur are ( in the nominative case ):

  • Naddoddr ( Old Norse )
  • Naddoður ( Icelandic)
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