hamingja

 

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hamingja (plural hamingjas)

1. (Norse mythology) A female guardian angel in Norse mythology, believed to accompany a person and decide their luck and happiness.

From Old Norse hamingja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːmiɲca/

hamingja f (genitive singular hamingju, no plural)

1. happiness
2. luck, fortune

• (happiness): sæla
• (luck): gæfa, heill, gifta

• hamingjulaus (“luckless”)
• hamingjusamur (“lucky; happy”)
• til hamingju

From an earlier *ham-gengja (“that which goes around in a case or wrapping”), composed of the same elements underlying hamr (“skin, shape”) +‎ ganga (“to go, walk”) (see also gengi (“luck, help”)).^[1] Hamingjas were "shapewalker" guardian spirits in Norse mythology who would accompany people and determine their luck.

hamingja f

1. luck
2. guardian spirit, hamingja

• gæfa

• Icelandic: hamingja
• Danish: hamingje

• “hamingja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press