Given name
Hjörvar
“soldier with a sword”
Hjörvar is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hjörvar goes back to Old Norse Hjörvarr, meaning “soldier with a sword.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
People named Hjörvar
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