Eric no está en la Biblia: significa “gobernante eterno”

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  • Eric is not in the Bible in any spelling. It is Old Norse, from ei, “ever,” and ríkr, “ruler, king.”
  • Danish settlers brought it to England; it was revived in the nineteenth century, partly through Farrar’s novel Eric, or Little by Little (1858).
  • Eric the Red founded the first European settlement in Greenland in 985.
  • Saint Eric IX, king of Sweden, was killed near Uppsala in 1160. He is the patron saint of Sweden, remembered on 18 May.
  • Eric can be a baptismal name; Orthodox families should ask the priest which calendar saint’s name will be used.
  • The New Testament gives the title of eternal ruler to Jesus (Luke 1:33).

Eric is not in the Bible, in any spelling. It is the Old Norse name Eiríkr, which means “ever ruler,” and Erick, Erik and Erich are forms of the same name. What does Eric mean? Eric means “ever ruler” or “eternal ruler.” Eiríkr joins two Old Norse words: ei, “ever, always,” and ríkr, “ruler, king.” The name has spread across Europe in local forms, among them Éric in French, Érico in Portuguese, Eirik in Norwegian and Eiríkur in Icelandic. Danish…

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Sources: Behind the Name entry for Eric; Wikipedia, “Erik the Red” and “Saint Erik”; Code of Canon Law, Canon 855 (vatican.va); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Luke 1:33; 2 Timothy 2:12).

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