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01 / Meaning & origin
Sölva is a feminine given name documented in Icelandic.
Separate records with matching spellings: Solva (Danish), Sólvá (Danish, Faroese)
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Solva— “healing drink”
If there were plenty of weapons, there was also balsam to heal their wounds; that is, if the northern names beginning with _Sölv_ are rightly referred to salve, the same word in the North as with us. The _v_ has for the most part been left out by pronunciation, but the dotted _o_ remains to testify that Sölmund, or Saamund, has no connection with Sol, the sun, as little as with Solomon, by which the Danish bishops rendered it. Solveig, healing drink, is now Solva, and Sölvar…
If there were plenty of weapons, there was also balsam to heal their wounds; that is, if the northern names beginning with _Sölv_ are rightly referred to salve, the same word in the North as with us. The _v_ has for the most part been left out by pronunciation, but the dotted _o_ remains to testify that Sölmund, or Saamund, has no connection with Sol, the sun, as little as with Solomon, by which the Danish bishops rendered it. Solveig, healing drink, is now Solva, and Sölvar is Sölvi.[128]
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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