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Germanic name derived from the elements #fara# "journey" (possibly via Gothic #faran# "to travel"; alternatively it could be from Langobardic #fara# "family, line, kind") and #wulf# "wolf" (Gothic #vulfs#). This is also the Old Swedish equivalent, from the Old Norse cognate #Farulfr# (in which case "the first element #Far-# is from the present stem of the Old West Norse verb #fara# "to go, to travel", and is related to Old Icelandic #far# "ship, passage"").