valr
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Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *walaz (“corpse, body, battlefield”). Cognate with Old English wæl, Old Saxon wal, Old High German wal. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“wound, injure”).
Pronunciation
Noun
valr m (genitive vals)
- (uncountable, in the singular) the dead, slain in battle
- Sögubrot af Fornkonungum 8, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 380:
- […] ok allan þann val, sem fellr á þeima velli, gef ek Óðni.
- […] and all those slain, who shall fall at that field, I shall give unto Odin.
- Sögubrot af Fornkonungum 8, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 380:
Declension
Derived terms
- falla í val (“to fall in battle”)
- valblóð (“blood, gore”)
- valbráð (“venison”)
- valdreyri (“blood, gore”)
- valdreyrugr (“gory with blood of the slain”)
- valdýr (“carrion-beast”)
- valdǫgg (“blood”)
- valfall (“fall of the slain”)
- valfrekr (“greedy for carrion”)
- Valfǫðr (“Odin”)
- valgaldr (“charms”)
- valgammr (“carrion-bird”)
- valgjarn (“greedy for carrion”)
- valglaumr (“swarm of the slain”)
- valgrind (“gates of Valhalla”)
- Valhǫll (“Valhalla”)
- valkeri (“sword”)
- valkjósandi (“Odin”, literally “chooser of the slain”)
- valkyrja (“valkyrie”)
- valkǫstr (“heap of slain”)
- valmær (“valkyrie”)
- valrauf, valrof (“spoils”)
- valrauðr (“blood-red”)
- valsinni (“company of the slain”)
- Valtafn (“offering of the slain”)
- Valtamr (“Odin”)
- valtívi (“god of the slain”)
- Valtýr (“Odin”)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Possibly an ancient borrowing from Proto-Celtic *wolkos (“hawk”).
Noun
valr m (genitive vals, plural valir)
- falcon, hawk
- Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 346:
- Vali scal eigi veiþa oc alptir oc gæs oc andir; […]
- Falcons shall not be hunted, nor swans nor geese nor ducks; […]
- Staraya Ladoga, in 840:
- [E]s Œfi of variðr hali valr Hríms fránmanna grand fimbulsinni plóga.
- Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 346:
Declension
Derived terms
- valhverfa (“to roll the eyes in the forehead”)
- valklif (“hand”)
- valkoka (“to roll the eyes in the forehead”)
- valveiðr (“hawking”)
Descendants
- Icelandic: valur m
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “valr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 676
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “valr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 468; also available at the Internet Archive
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