Given name
Bergljot
“to help, salvate”
Bergljot is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian Nynorsk.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bergljot goes back to a word meaning “to help, salvate.”
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How it developed
From Old Norse Bergljót, built from Norwegian Nynorsk berg + ljot.
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Bergljot’s family of names
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.
People named Bergljot
- Bergljot Hobæk Haffnovelist (1925-2016)
- Bergljot Håkonsdatterdaughter of a norse jarl901–1001
- Bergljot WebsterNorwegian Supreme Court Justiceborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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