árr

From Proto-Germanic *airuz. Cognate with Gothic airus (“messenger”).

árr m (genitive árar, plural ærir)

1. messenger, servant
   • c. 975, Þórbjǫrn dísarskáld, Poem about Þórr, verse 1

     Þórr hefr Yggs með ǫ́rum
     Ásgarð af þrek varðan.

     Thor has mightily defended Asgard together with the messengers of Ygg [GODS].

   • Hlǫðskviða stanza 30 (ed. Neckel/Kuhn, Die Lieder des Codex Regius, 5th edition, 1983):

     Eigi scolom árom spilla, / þeim er fara einir saman.

     We ought not to harm messengers who ride alone.

2. (plural only, Christianity) angels

• (angels): englar

• erendi (“errand”)

• árr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.