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Origin of the name THORSTEINN.
Etymology of the
name THORSTEINN.
Meaning of the baby name THORSTEINN.
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THORSTEINN,
ÞORSTEINN. Old
Norse name meaning "Thor's stone," from Thor/Þorr, god of thunder, and
steinn "stone." Also Thorstein.
... Runic and other stones
dedicated to the divinity were called Thor's stones or Thorsteinn; hence
by an obvious transition became placenames or personal names... (Transactions
of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological
Society, v.12, 1893.
... There were once a king and
queen who had twelve sons, whose names are not given. Not far from
the dwelling of the king, there lived an old man and an old woman in the
garden-nook, who had one son, by name Thorsteinn. He and the
king's sons were of age at the time now told of... (Icelandic
Legends, Arnason, 1866).
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