Guðrún Magnúsdóttir

Brief Life History of Guðrún

When Guðrún Magnúsdóttir was born about 1642, in Fljotshlid, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland, her father, Magnús JÓNSSON, was 29 and her mother, Ragnhildur HALLDÓRSDÓTTIR, was 18. She married Guðmundur Magnússon about 1670, in Breiðabólsstaður, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died from 1700 to 1703.

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Family Time Line

Guðmundur Magnússon
1644–
Guðrún Magnúsdóttir
1642–1703
Marriage: about 1670
Vilborg Gudmundsdottir
1675–
Magnus Gudmundsson
1677–1745
Halldor Gudmundsson
1679–
Bjarni Gudmundsson
1680–
Olof Gudmundsdottir
1684–
Thorunn Gudmundsson
1682–
Ragnhildur Gudmundsdóttir
1686–
Ranneig Gudmundsson
1700–

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Gudrun Magnusdottir -

Name Meaning

from an Old Norse female personal name composed of guð ‘god’ + rūn ‘secret lore’. In Norse legend this was the name borne by the heroine of the Volsungasaga, sister of Gunnar and wife of Sigurd, whose destruction she brought about. The name was revived in the second part of the 19th century, and is now also used in Germany and occasionally in the English-speaking world, possibly under the influence of the character Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung or Gudrun Brangwen, one of the central characters in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love ( 1920 ), which was made into a film in 1969 .

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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