#norwegian names

[liliewriter]

need a norwegian name for your wip?

norwegian characters in english books are not that common, in my experience, but still there's some names i love that i really want to share.

for this i have chosen to lean on the newest baby name trend in norway; finding the oldest most norwegian name in your family tree and naming your kid that. this means more common/popular names like ola, ida, magnus, sunniva, etc will not be listed (though i can make a post like that too, if that's something you want to see).

a lot of these have an origin that traces back to the viking age and i tried to avoid names that came after christianity. you'll see it esp in names that have for example bjørn (from old norse for bear), thor/tor (like the god), -hild (from old norse for battle), -mund (from old norse for protection, i'm pretty sure).

i tried to keep to names that either are very rare (less than 10 people share the first name) or that are old and coming back - you have no idea how many church records i just went through to find some good old ones. hope some of these could come to use for some! feel free to message, send an ask, or leave a reply if you have questions about spelling, pronunciations, or anything else.

so, some examples that i found will be below;

traditionally girl's names; ragna, gunhild, dagny, frøydis, ylva, solfrid, snefrid, aagot/ågot, thorbjørg, borgny, odlaug, vigdis, valborg, gunlaug, jensine, gunnvor, halldis, undis, rigmor, ellinor, torunn, elida, embla, signe, gørhild, hege, norlaug, thordis, åshild, solveig

traditionally boys names; hjalmar, njål, brynje, jostein, preben, kyrre, sigvart, gunleif, torjus, oddve, asløv, sverre, vigmund, bjarnar, reidulf, knut, gerhardt, ingeir, guttorm, thormund, ørjan, ådne, aslak, birk, vilje, asbjørn, halvard, ståle, amund

if anyone are interest i can make a more in depth list with the meanings of these names, as i imagine finding the correct definitions with english sources might be difficult for some names. just let me know!

(sidenote, i say "norwegian", but some of these can be used in other scandi countries as well, either with the same spelling or something similar to it.)

scandis, feel free to add your favourite really old people names in replies!<3

[felinefractious]

Barbarossa av Barnedroem [Pedigree] [PawPeds]

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 av Barnedroem

��� Red Amber [Extension Gene: Amber]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War

[iqrachi]

The mightiest lill wizard ✨ I took the best picture of my lill boy Ask today! The stick he was holding makes him look like a small wizard and I simply just had to draw that <3

[they-call-me-youngermoney]

yo i found these four freaks outside my house, what cat food brands do u guys recommend

[little-pup-pip]

25 Days of Agere Moodboards! Day 2: Favorite Stuffie!!

[umseb]

📷 @.nyvoll / instagram

[evelynismahnameboi]

Bart as a human!!

Wanted something silly, instead I got this

[vaguely-concerned]

waiting until the second season opener to reveal that stolas terminally love-at-first-sighted that little motherfucker (I wish I was exaggerating or joking but no that shit was literally ON SIGHT), thus recontextualizing in one stroke everything about season 1, was an act of stunning emotional violence in storytelling that I may never recover from it's perfect

[that-other-blob]

Redraw of an old nyo Norway drawing

I named her Sunniva

[gingermaple]

hermitcraft..... warrior cats..... zombiecleo....

[felinefractious]

Paddington des Chênes d’Or [Pedigree]

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 Odile Gamard [Chênes d’Or]

🎨 Black Mackerel Tabby with White

[yourlocal-therian]

Hiii!!!!! Hoping your requests are open :D

If they are, can i request a eurasian lynx moodboard with foresty themes (maybe a bit of snow??? You can choose :D)

Or a moodboard of an orange tabby norwegian forest cat (with like... a white chin and belly. If that makes sense lol) with forest themes :)

Not forcing you lol, do whatever you want, and have a great day/night :D

my requests are always open!

I dont like the lynx moodboard so lemme know if you want me to redo it

I also decided to do the Norwegian forest cat, so here ya go

very fluffy, would pet

[gaymarisa]

another strange beast has appeared inside my house

[bogkeep]

i am happy with who i am but i am also deeply envious of my eight year old younger brother, who's always had a skill and interest in a thing that's very easy to make a career out of, so he just went straight into the specialized schools straight into a job... and i've kept flopping around like a fish on land with no idea what i'm going to do this whole time. maybe i'm just bitter that i HAVE a skill i'm passionate about and really good at, but there's basically no infrastructure for turning it into a decent, stable job. sighs

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

fuck it

Surda is slavic now