Héri or Heri is a male given name.[1]

Héri
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameFlateyjarbók
MeaningHare
Region of originFaroese

In the Faroe Islands, Héri appears in the Flateyjarbók, a history written around 1380, in which Heri Sigmundsson is the youngest son of Sigmundur Brestisson.[2] Heri is a common name in the Faroes today, probably not surviving as a traditional name, but revived and put into use again in later times from historical accounts like Flateyjarbók. Héri may mean "hare" (lepus europaeus), for which the modern Icelandic name is Héri. Alternatively, Héri may be an abbreviation of Norse names beginning with Her-, like Herálfur, Herleifur, or Hergeir.

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  1. ^ Gorog, Ralph Paul De (1958). The Scandinavian Element in French and Norman: A Study of the Influence of the Scandinavian Languages on French from the Tenth Century to the Present. Bookman Associates. p. 56.
  2. ^ Vigfússon, Guðbrandur; Unger, Carl Rikard (1862). Flateyjarbok (in Icelandic). P.T. Malling. p. 402.

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