UNNR
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old form also uðr, Lex. Poët. passim; [A. S. yð; Lat. unda]:—the waves, sea; svalar unnir, the cold waves, Vsp. 3, Gm. 7; hávar unnir, Skv. 2. 16; blár unnir, Sdm. 10; ormr knýr unnir, Vsp. 50; hregg-blásin, sviðköld uðr, Fms. i. 165, iii. 27 (in a verse), freq. in poets, also in mod. usage: poët., unn-blakkr, -dýr, -skíð, -vigg, = a ship; unn-röðull, -eldr, -fúrr, -glóð, -sól, = gold; unn-heimr, ‘wave-home,’ i. e. the sea, Lex. Poët.: in prose it is only used in unn-vörp, q. v.; unnar steinn, a sea-stone (a boulder on the beach by which the tides are noted?), Hkv. 2. 29 (an oath is sworn, at úrsvölum unnar steini); unnar hestr, a ‘wave-steed,’ i. e. a ship, Ísl. ii. (in a verse); unnar dagr, ‘wave-day,’ i. e. gold, Lex. Poët.
II. one of the Nereïds or Ránar-dætr, Edda 101.
2. the name of a woman, Unnr and Uðr, Landn., Ld.; and in compds, Stein-unn (Stein-uðr), Þór-unn, Ing-unn, Sæ-unn, Ljót-unn, (again, in the man’s name Auð-unn, the ‘unn’ is qs. ‘vini,’ A. S. wine): the names Unnr (Uðr) and Auðr interchange; thus is the queen Auðr djúpauðga in the Ld. called Unnr, in the Landn. Auðr.