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A given name in Icelandic
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Kolgríma is a feminine given name documented in Icelandic.
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KOLGRIMA— “cool mask”
_Koll_, with a double _l_, meaning head, is sometimes used in northern names, but far less commonly than _kol_, cool, or rather in the act of cooling after great heat. The great blast-bellows with which the gods charitably refreshed the horses of the sun, are called in the Eddaic poetry, _isarnkol_, or iron coolers, and there may have been some allusion to this in the names of Kol and Kale, which alternated in one of the old northern families. But as the cooling of iron…
_Koll_, with a double _l_, meaning head, is sometimes used in northern names, but far less commonly than _kol_, cool, or rather in the act of cooling after great heat. The great blast-bellows with which the gods charitably refreshed the horses of the sun, are called in the Eddaic poetry, _isarnkol_, or iron coolers, and there may have been some allusion to this in the names of Kol and Kale, which alternated in one of the old northern families. But as the cooling of iron involved its turning black, _kolbrünn_ meant a black breastplate, and was thus used as a by-name; and it may be in this sense of black that _kol_ enters into the composition of Kolbjorn, black bear, Kolgrim, Kolgrima; Kolskegg would thus be black-beard; but Kolbein can hardly be black-leg, so, perhaps, it may refer to the bones being strong as wrought iron; and Kolfinn and its feminine are either cool-white or refer to Finn’s strength. Colbrand is in English romance the name of the Danish giant killed by Guy of Warwick, at Winchester; but the Heptarchy displays a very perplexing set of Cols, as they have been modernized, though they used to be spelt Ceol.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section VIII (Appearance) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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