Given name
Álfhildur
“elf battle”
Álfhildur is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Álfhildur goes back to Old Norse Álfhildr, meaning “elf battle.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Álfhildur’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Álfhildur shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form ALFHILD.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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Þórgunnur
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Alvhild
“elf” · “battle”
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