- Look up
geirr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Geirr is a
given name.
Notable people with the name include:
Geirr Lystrup (born 1949),
Norwegian singer...
- camp by
Geirr with
mortal wounds.
Beyah mercy kills Adem, and at her
suggestion all but
Geirr cannibalize his body to
avoid starving.
Geirr unsuccessfully...
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Geirr Tveitt (born Nils Tveit; 19
October 1908 – 1
February 1981) was a
Norwegian composer and pianist.
Tveitt was a
central figure of the
national movement...
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Geirr Lystrup (born 22
March 1949) is a
Norwegian singer, poet,
playwright and children's writer. He was born in Vinje. His
debut album was Ti på taket...
- in the
British Isles and Iceland. The word is
related to the Old
Norse geirr,
meaning spear. It is
usually translated in
English as "halberd", but most...
- name
commonly given in
Norway and Iceland. It is
derived from Old
Norse geirr "spear", a
common name
element in
Germanic names in general, from Proto-Germanic...
-
German sēr. With
original /z/ Proto-Germanic *gaizaz > *geizz > Old
Norse geirr.
General loss of word-final /n/,
following the loss of word-final short...
- 'earth') or jarl ('earl'), or
perhaps the
Norse personal name
Geirr (thus Geirrsey, '
Geirr's Island'). The
ending -ey
denotes an
island (as in
Guernsey or...
- with Post-runic OEN: fēgher, gēr, hø̄gher, mø̄dōmber, diūr; OWN: feigr,
geirr, haugr, meydómr, dýr; from PN *****ijaz, *gaizaz, *haugaz, *mawi- + dōmaz...
- The
Piano Sonata No. 29 ''Sonata Etere'' Op. 129 by
Geirr Tveitt is Tveitt's only
surviving piano sonata. The piece,
though met with
disdain by critics...
