Dellingr

See also: Delling

English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *Dagilingaz; if the name means "dayspring," then it is derived from *dagaz (“day”); if it instead means "the shining one," it would be from an obscure Germanic root meaning "shining," "proud," shared with Old English deall (“proud, bright”) and possibly the second element of Old Norse Heimdallr.

Proper noun

Dellingr

  1. (mythology) The dawn god of pagan Scandinavia.

References
  • Bellows, Henry Adams (Trans.) (1936). The Poetic Edda.
  • Heimdallr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • ‪Orchard, Andy (1997) Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend, Cassell, page 32‬
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