Guðrøðr is a masculine
Old Norse personal name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...
. The name is rendered in
Old Irish and
Middle Irish as ''
Gofraid
is an Irish masculine given name, arising in the Old Irish and Middle Irish/Middle Gaelic languages, as , and later partially Anglicised as Goffraid.
' corresponds to the Old Norse ', cognate with Gottfried or ', and Galfrid or '. ''Gofraid''/' ...
'' or ''Gofraidh'' (later ''Goraidh'' in
Scottish Gaelic).
Anglicised
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forms of the Old Norse name are ''Godred'', ''Guthred'', and ''Guthfrith''. The name is also
Latinised as ''Godredus''.
Persons with the name
Many of these are given in more than one spelling in various sources, and thus their article titles here are not consistent.
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Gudrød the Hunter (semi-legendary king in Vingulmark in south-east Norway, from 804 until 810)
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Gudrød Bjørnsson (ruled Vestfold until 968)
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Godred Crovan (d. 1095), King of Dublin and the Isles
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Guðrøðr Óláfsson (d. 1187), King of Dublin and the Isles
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Guðrøðr Rǫgnvaldsson (d. 1231), King in the Isles
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Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill (d. 1075), King of Dublin
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Gofraid mac Arailt
Gofraid mac Arailt (died 989), in Old Norse Guðrøðr Haraldsson , was a Scandinavian or Norse-Gael king. He and his brother Maccus were active in the lands around the Irish Sea in the 970s and 980s.
Origins
Gofraid and Maccus are usually assume ...
(d. 989), King of the Isles
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Gofraid mac Sitriuc (d. 951), King of Dublin
*Gofraid mac Sitriuc (d. 1070), King of Dublin, father of
Fingal mac Gofraid
Fingal mac Gofraid, and his father, Gofraid mac Sitriuc, were late eleventh-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles. Although one source states that Gofraid mac Sitriuc's father was named Sitriuc, there is reason to suspect that this could be ...
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Gofraid ua Ímair (d. 934), King of Dublin and Northumbria
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Guðrøðr Magnússon (fl. 1275), son of Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles
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Guðröðr of Skåne Guðröðr was a legendary Scanian king (perhaps 7th century) who, according to the ''Ynglinga saga'', was the brother of Halfdan the Valiant, Ivar Vidfamne's father. He is only known from late Icelandic sources dating from the 13th century.
The f ...
, 7th-century Scanian king
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Guthred (d. 895), King of York
Other
*Godred, the name of an engine on the
Culdee Fell Railway
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