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Origin of the name HADU.
Etymology of the name HADU.
Meaning of the baby name HADU.

  

HADU.  Old German form of Old Norse Hodur (q.v.), meaning "fierce warrior."

... Baldur's murderer's name (Hodur) is in Gothic Hathus, in old German Hadu, and in Anglo-Saxon Headho... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)

... All these names belonged to the highest god, whose creative bounty blesses; others to his near kinsman the majestic god of war: Wîg (pugna, p. 203, conf. Graff 1, 740) and Hadu (pp. 207. 223), to which many female names correspond, Hilta, etc.  With Yggr (p. 208) I have identified the Pallor and Pavor of the Romans; Omi, Wôma is better explained as elemental.  What comes nearer to Wîg and Hadu is Death, Dauþus (p. 842), which likewise from a male becomes a female person;... (Teutonic Mythology, Grimm, v.2, 1883)

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