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Origin of the name TOR.
Etymology of the
name TOR.
Meaning of the baby name TOR.
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TOR.
Scandinavian. A form of Old Norse Þórr
(Thórr), the name of a
god of "thunder."
... Now in the Scandinavian
mythology there is no name more prominent than that of Thor or Tor,
and this prefix is a certain indication of the presence of the Northmen
in any country in which it is found... (Varronianus, Donaldson,
1852)
TOR.
Arthurian. The first knight of the Round Table, perhaps from
Celtic tor, "hill."
Tor (Sir), the natural son of
king Pellinore and the wife of Aries the cowherd. He was the first
of the knights of the Round Table.—Sir T. Malory, History of Prince
Arthur, i. 24 (1470). (The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in
Fiction, Brewer, 1910)
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