Gandalf

Revision History

Date	Editor	Change Summary
12/7/2022, 9:35 PM	Mike C	update #113
4/25/2021, 10:07 PM	Mike C	update #110
11/16/2019, 11:04 AM	Mike C	update #105
6/13/2019, 12:17 AM	Mike C	update #104
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM	Mike C	earliest recorded revision

Gender Masculine

Usage Norse Mythology, Literature

Pronounced Pron. /ˈɡæn.dɑlf/(English)

Meaning & History

Means "wand elf" in Old Norse, from the elements gandr "wand, staff, magic, monster" and alfr "elf". This name belongs to a dwarf (Gandálfr) in the Völuspá, a 13th-century Scandinavian manuscript that forms part of the Poetic Edda. The author J. R. R. Tolkien borrowed the name for a wizard in his novels The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954).