Atli is an

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

masculine personal name, and may refer to:

People

* Atli the Slender, a 9th-century earl of Sogn, Norway *

Atli Viðar Björnsson Atli Viðar Björnsson (born 4 January 1980) is an Icelandic retired football (soccer), footballer, who mostly played for Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar, FH. Since joining FH in 2001, he played more than 300 matches for the club in all competiti ...

(born 1980), Icelandic footballer * Atli Dam (1932–2005), five-time prime minister of the Faroe Islands *

Atli Gíslason Atli Gíslason (born 12 August 1947) is a member of parliament of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament. He was first elected to represent the South constituency in 2007. He was elected as a member of the Left-Green Movement, but is now a non-p ...

(born 1947), Icelandic politician * Atli Guðnason (born 1984), Icelandic footballer * Atli Þór Héðinsson (born 1953), Icelandic former footballer *

Atli Örvarsson Atli Örvarsson (; born 7 July 1970) is an American-Icelandic BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated film score composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's biggest projects, including the ''Pirates of th ...

(born 1970), Icelandic film score composer *

Atli Heimir Sveinsson Atli Heimir Sveinsson (21 September 1938 – 20 April 2019) was an Icelandic composer. Atli Heimir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and started piano lessons at the age of 10. He studied piano with Rögnvaldur Sigurjónsson at the Reykjavík Coll ...

(born 1938), Icelandic composer

Fictional or mythological characters

* Atli,

Attila Attila ( or ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among others, in Central Europe, C ...

in Old Norse legendary literature * Atli, one of the names of the Norse god Thor * Atli, in ''

Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar "Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar" ("Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson") is a poem collected in the ''Poetic Edda'', found in the Codex Regius manuscript where it follows '' Helgakviða Hundingsbana I'' and precedes '' Helgakviða Hundingsbana II''. The por ...

'', a poem in the Poetic Edda * Atli Buðlason, a character in the heroic poems in the Poetic Edda and in ''

Völsunga saga The ''Völsunga saga'' (often referred to in English as the ''Volsunga Saga'' or ''Saga of the Völsungs'') is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story ...

'', believed to be a romanticized version of Attila the Hun * Atli, a character in Marvel comics * Atli Hringsson * Atli Iðmundsson

People

Fictional or mythological characters

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