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A given name in Icelandic
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01 / Meaning & origin
Snælaug is a feminine given name documented in Icelandic.
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SNÆLAUG— “snow ocean”
It accords with this theory that Iron appears as a component part of numerous names in Germany, and probably likewise in Scandinavia, though there the similarity of the sound to _Iis_, ice, occasions a doubt whether the word was intended for ice, or for iron. The North has, indeed, the cold but not inappropriate Snæulf and Snæbiorn, Snæfrid, snow peace, and even the uncomfortable Snælaug; and when their language had dropped the form _eisarn_ for the metal, and called it…
It accords with this theory that Iron appears as a component part of numerous names in Germany, and probably likewise in Scandinavia, though there the similarity of the sound to _Iis_, ice, occasions a doubt whether the word was intended for ice, or for iron. The North has, indeed, the cold but not inappropriate Snæulf and Snæbiorn, Snæfrid, snow peace, and even the uncomfortable Snælaug; and when their language had dropped the form _eisarn_ for the metal, and called it _jern_, as we do iron, they probably transferred to ice the meaning of the names that once meant iron.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter III (Names From Objects Connected With Mythology), Section XI (Weapon Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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