Garðar Explained

Garðar (pronounced as /non/; pronounced as /is/; also spelled Gardar) is an Old Norse word meaning "strongholds", "enclosures" or "settlements". It may refer to: also means Garðar in Icelandic

Places and jurisdictions

In the meaning "strongholds":

• Garðaríki, modern territory of Belarus, western Russia and Ukraine.

In the meaning "settlements":

• Garðar, Greenland, a Norse settlement and titular see
• Gardar, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in the US, built up chiefly by Icelanders

Persons

• Garðar Árnason (born 1938), Icelandic footballer
• Garðar Thór Cortes (born 1974), Icelandic tenor
• Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976), Norwegian-born artist
• Garðar Gunnlaugsson (born 1983), Icelandic football forward
• Garðar Jóhannsson (born 1980), Icelandic football striker
• Garðar Svavarsson (fl. 860s), Swede who was the first Scandinavian to live on Iceland

See also

• Homo gardarensis, a paleontological false type of man named after the above Greenland town
• Garðarsson