Garðar
Garðar (also spelled Gardar) is an Old Norse word meaning "strongholds", "enclosures" or "settlements" depending on context. It is also a personal name.
Places and jurisdictions
In the meaning "strongholds":
- Garðaríki, modern Western Russia.
In the meaning "settlements":
- Garðar, a Norse settlement on Greenland
- hence Gardar (Garðar), a titular see and former bishopric in the above Greenland town.
- Gardar, North Dakota, a unincorporated community in the USA, built up chiefly by Icelanders
Persons
- Gardar Svavarsson, a Swede who was the first Scandinavian to live on Iceland.
See also
- Homo gardarensis, a paleontological false type of man named after the above Greenland town
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