Old viking names and names to help troubled ones

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Hi people! What´s up?
I was looking in a viking book today and I must say that we here in the North, has all the great names.
Thor, Freja(Freia), Odin and so on... And now I found the coolest name ever! This is the name I´m going to use with my next dwarf; Rodhulf !
Rod means honour, and hulf means wolf.
Cool as hell if you ask me.
The purpose of this topic is to help people who has trouble in figuring out a name for characters (Like in Baldurs Gate, D&D, Ad&d etc.) so post yer best name ideas here! Share yer knowledge! ehh... or somehting like that...
And if you get any more cool vikingnames, please let me know what they mean and such!
Thx!! //Zaragoth

[This message has been edited by Zaragoth (edited August 27, 2001).]

 

Tyr is the Norse God of justice
Balder is actually the Norse God of Music & Poetry.

Loki is the troublemaker - kinda like our own Lokken ????

I used the Bible for alot of names early on in D&D. Go through Judges, Samuel Kings & Chronicles for great names.

Ehud
Samson
Nimrod the Hunter
Gideon

 

Yeah, I often uses name from the bible too. But I never realize it before it´s done.
( If anybody remember the Melkhior incident... )

 

i make them up mself. here are some of my own.
(good men)
Silmire
Sir Dargorn
Azoch Xzen
Selward
Yismat

(evil)
Salik Gri
Avoch Dar
Trill

(good women)
Joeli
Cilia
Thorn

(evil women)
Lana D'rick
Theira
Muluna

Those are some names from my book which i am in the process of writing. So you get the first preveiw names from what is soon to be a LOTR beater!

 

i usually use Kevlar
and my female names always start with an s............
weird

[This message has been edited by kevlar0101 (edited August 27, 2001).]

 

Matheatis: The correct name is Loke

Thor, the mighty god who passes over our heads in a cart pulled by male goats while fighting the evil trolls of Asgard. When he strikes at them with his hammer, lightning strikes down and thunder can be heard from miles away. He's definitly the coolest one .

As for names, LotR names and WoT names are often used on my characters. And names from Diablo 2 bosses and legendary Starcraft persons.

 

Some of my favs:

Sir Belisarius Durendal
Marius
Sulla
Licinius
Thorfin Skulsplitter
Balin Thunderaxe
Buliwyf (Bull-Vye from 13th warrior)
Hrothgar
Hurin
Turin
Thorin
Helm Hammerhand
Faramir
Varques
Al-Pharazon
Gandor the Red (I know, cheesy Gandalf ripoff)
Aemon Pelivar
Honorius
Lyssander de Soleil
Agrippa
Damocles
Hedwig Leafspringer (my favorite Hobbit thief)

and for the ladies:
Bronwyn Siannodel
Eowyn Efhelm
Circe Anthalas
Laurana de Soleil
Zarina
Katya
Trixie
Dixie
Trinity Trueaxe


Well, that's about all I could think of at the moment....

I just remembered another cool name: Athelstan...I think it's a Norse name from the 10th century. I always thought it was a cool paladin name....Sir Athelstan.


[This message has been edited by Sir Belisarius (edited August 28, 2001).]

 

Well I have 4 names I use mainly

Men:
Psycho
Nightmare

Women:
Thunder Star
Bookie (don't ask)

I also like almost any German name like Gunter, Axle, and Wolfgang.



[This message has been edited by Psycho. the fanged rabbit (edited August 28, 2001).]

 

Brisingaman was an evil Dwarf living in Svartalfheim, (the home of the dark elves)

Forseti was the son of Baldur, and was god of Justice

Heimdal was the guardian of the gods.

Fenris was a wolf and a thief - a son of Loki.

From Icelandic Sagas:

Erik the Red

 

No. Brisingaman was frejas necklace.
And Brage was the god of poetry.



[This message has been edited by Tasohan (edited August 28, 2001).]

 

No. Brisingaman was frejas necklace.
And Brage was the god of poetry.

Yes, You are right! Sorry! I misread the reference text, mainly because of having in mind the title of a childrens' fiction book called 'The Weirdstone of Brisingaman' which makes it sound as though Brisingaman is a person. The necklace was MADE by the Dark Dwarves, and they promised to give it to Freya as a gift in return for 'favours'.(!!!)

Brisingaman is still a good name, though!

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More correction:

The names is spelled Heimdall, and he also was father of all humans.

Brisingaman was Freja's necklace, and she got it by sleeping with four dwarves.

Other names:

Mjølner - Thor's hammer
Sleipner - Odin's horse (it had 8 legs and was also a son of Loke
Hugin & Munin - Odin's two ravens


[This message has been edited by Mollusken (edited August 28, 2001).]

 

Mollusken - we might be dealing with translation issues . . . every American printed Norse mythology I've read spells the god of mischif as Loki.

Check out http://www.pantheon.org/areas/genealogy/principal_norse.html
or http://pantheon.org/mythica/articles/l/loki.html

(yeah I added an extra "k", but I've never seen it with an "o")

This might explain why you're seeing varient spellings and different names.

 

But hey, vikings came from up here north, not from Englang, America or other places. Here we say Loke, so Loke is the most correct. You probably just write Loki because it's the way for you to pronounce it.

In fact, Thor is also spelled wrong. Tor is the correct way. And Freia or Freja is written Frøya, allthough that would be difficult for many of you .

And for another cool norse name:

Tor is also called Lorride by the other gods.

[This message has been edited by Mollusken (edited August 28, 2001).]

 

are you sure sleipner is child of Loke???

I only thought he had the three, Hell, Fenrir and Midgård (the wyrm/worm)

 

Mollusken, heh.. I´ve read so many thing about vikings and north mythologies in english that I forgot that Thor was pronounced Tor in Sweden.
Here are some other names (Made up by me):
Melkhior
Zaragoth
Vorgath
Garvoth
Gorgolyn
Zandrima
--
These are the ones I could think of right now. // Zaragoth

[This message has been edited by Zaragoth (edited August 28, 2001).]

 

The guy sitting behind me in class said Fenris, Sleipner and the Midgard wyrm was children of Loke. He's pretty bright, so I assume he's right.

Loke is actually no god, but a jotun (evil troll). He was addopted by Odin (chief of gods), and is then also brother to Tor who is a real son of Odin.

 

DAMN our nordic mythologies are cool

 

I'm still pretty sure it's Hel (how do you spell her name?) two face, ruler of underworld? and not sleipner. Perhaps he got sleipner in another relationship though