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Guðrøðr

Guðrøðr is a masculine Old Norse personal name. The name is rendered in Old Irish and Middle Irish as Gofraid or Gofraidh. Anglicised forms of the Old Norse name are Godred, Guthred, and Guthfrith. The name is also Latinised as Godredus.

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Guðrøðr is a masculine Old Norse personal name. The name is rendered in Old Irish and Middle Irish as Gofraid or Gofraidh (later Goraidh in Scottish Gaelic). Anglicised forms of the Old Norse name are Godred, Guthred, and Guthfrith. The name is also Latinised as Godredus.1

Persons with the name

Many of these are given in more than one spelling in various sources, and thus their article titles here are not consistent.

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  1. Scriptores Rerum Danicum Medii Aevi, Jacob Langebek, vol. IX, Haunia, 1878, pp. 244 & 259