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Name Ygritte
Gender Feminine
Usage Literature, Popular Culture
Pronounced Pron. EE-grit (Literature)
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Meaning & History
Ygritte is the name of a ‘wildling’ or ‘free folk’ character from the Song of Ice and Fire books by GRR Martin and the TV show Game of Thrones based upon the former.
Being a recent invention for a fictious world resembling Medieval Europe, it’s obviously intended to have a Norse or Germanic feel to it, but no actual or alleged etymology is known.
Being a recent invention for a fictious world resembling Medieval Europe, it’s obviously intended to have a Norse or Germanic feel to it, but no actual or alleged etymology is known.