Editing Iðunn (section)

==Name==
The name ''Iðunn'' has been variously explained as meaning 'ever young', 'rejuvenator', or 'the rejuvenating one'.<ref name="IDUNN-NAME">For "ever young", see Lindow (2001) pp 198–199. For "Rejuvenator", see Orchard (1997) p 95; for "The rejuvenating one", see Simek (2007) p 171.</ref> As the modern [[English alphabet]] lacks the [[eth]] ([[ð]]) character, ''Iðunn'' is sometimes [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] as '''''Idhunn''''', '''''Idunn''''', '''''Idun''''', or '''''Ithun'''''.<ref name=ANGLICIZATIONS>Examples include ''Idun'' in Davidson (1965), ''Idunn'' in Larrington (1999), and ''Ithun'' in Hollander (1990).</ref> An [[Latin declension#First declension (a)|-a suffix]] is sometimes appended to denote femininity, resulting in forms such as '''''Iduna''''' and '''''Idunna'''''.<ref name=ASUFFIX>Examples include ''Iduna'' in Thorpe (1907) and ''Idunna'' in Gräter (1812).</ref>

The name ''Iðunn'' appears as a personal name in several historical sources and the {{Lang|is|[[Landnámabók]]}} records that it has been in use in Iceland as a personal name since the pagan period (10th&nbsp;century). {{Lang|is|[[Landnámabók]]}} records two incidents of women by the name of ''Iðunn''; Iðunn Arnardóttir, the daughter of an early settler, and Iðunn Molda-Gnúpsdóttir, granddaughter of one of the earliest settlers recorded in the book.<ref name="OLD-NORSE SOURCES">See Turville-Petre (1964) p 186 and the ''Landnámabók'', [http://www.snerpa.is/net/snorri/landnama.htm available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210191901/http://www.snerpa.is/net/snorri/landnama.htm |date=10 December 2016 }}.</ref> The name ''Iðunn'' has been theorized as the origin of the Old English name ''[[Idonea]]''. The 19th&nbsp;century author [[Charlotte Mary Yonge|C.M. Yonge]] writes that the derivation of ''Idonea'' from ''Idunn'' is "almost certain," noting that although ''Idonea'' may be "the feminine of the Latin {{Lang|la|idoneus}} (fit), its absence in the Romance countries may be taken as an indication that it was a mere classicising of the northern goddess of the apples of youth."<ref name="YONGE-307">Yonge (1884) p 307.</ref>

The 19th&nbsp;century scholar [[Jacob Grimm]] proposed a potential etymological connection to the [[Idis (Germanic)|idisi]]. Grimm states that "with the original form ''[[Idis (Germanic)|idis]]'' the goddess Idunn may possibly be connected."<ref name="GRIMM402-403">[[Jacob Grimm|Grimm]] (1882) pp 402–403.</ref> Grimm further states that Iðunn may have been known with another name, and that "Iðunn would seem by Saem. 89a to be an Elvish word, but we do not hear of any other name for the goddess."<ref name="GRIMM333">[[Jacob Grimm|Grimm]] (1882) p 333.</ref>