valr
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
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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 fell at that field, I give unto Odin.
- Sögubrot af Fornkonungum 8, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 380:
Declension
Declension of valr (strong a-stem, singular only)
Derived terms
Terms derived from valr
- 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 (“chooser of the slain”)
- valkyrja (“valkyrie”)
- valkǫstr (“heap of slain”)
- valmær (“valkyrie”)
- valrauðr (“blood-red”)
- valrauf, valrof (“spoils”)
- valsinni (“company of the slain”)
- Valtafn (“offering of the slain”)
- Valtamr (“Odin”)
- valtívi (“god of the slain”)
- Valtýr (“Odin”)
Descendants
- Norwegian: val m
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Etymology 2
Probably a contracted form of *valhaukr (“carrion-hawk”), from valr (“the slain”) + haukr (“hawk”).
Noun
valr m (genitive vals, plural valir)
Declension
Declension of valr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Terms derived from valr
Descendants
- Icelandic: valur m
References
- “valr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- valr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- valr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.