Brief Life History of Gudrun
When Gudrun Gudmundsdottir was born on 8 February 1836, in Miðdal, Kjósarsýsla, Capital Region, Iceland, her father, Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, was 46 and her mother, Þórdís Ólafsdóttir, was 28.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Gudrun Gudmundsson, "Iceland, Baptisms, 1730-1905"
Parents and Siblings
1789–1855 Male
1807– Female
Siblings (9)
1831–1831 Female
1832– Female
1833– Female
1836– Female
1837– Female
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World Events (6)
1843
Age 7
1843
Age 7
1904
Age 68
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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