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'''Waldemar''', '''Valdemar''' or '''Woldemar''' is an [[Old High German]] given name. It consists of the elements ''wald-'' "power", "brightness" and ''-mar'' "fame".

 

 

The [[Old Norse]] form ''Valdamarr'' (also ''Valdarr'') occurs in the [[Guðrúnarkviða II]] as the name of a king of the Danes. The Old Norse form is also used in [[Heimskringla]], in the story of [[Harald Hardrada]], as the name of a ruler of [[Holmgard]] (Veliky Novgorod), in this case as a translation of the Slavic name ''Volodimer''.<ref>H. Munro Chadwick, Nora K. Chadwick (2010). ''The Growth of Literature''. Cambridge University Press. [https://books.google.ch/books?id=Ds2oBKF_FrUC&pg=PA118 p. 118].</ref><ref>Alison Finlay (2004). ''Fagrskinna: A Catalogue of the Kings of Norway''. Brill. [https://books.google.ch/books?id=SmJ8v1ENhg4C&pg=PA236#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 236].</ref> The ''[[Fagrskinna]]'' kings' sagas also have ''Valdamarr'' as the translation of Slavic ''Volodimer''/''Vladimir'', in reference to both [[Vladimir the Great]] and [[Vladimir Yaroslavovich]]. The German form was introduced to Scandinavia as ''Valdemar'' in the 12th century, with king [[Valdemar I of Denmark]].