The name Gunther is usually given to a Boy.
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The origin of the name lies in German.
Gunther is pronounced as GUWN-ter
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Gunther is an Anglo-Saxon name, derived from the Old German 'gund-heri' which means 'battle-army'.
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Meaning
From the Old
German name
Gundahar, derived from the elements
Gunda "war" and heri "army" (making it a cognate of
Gunnar). This was the name of a semi-legendary 5th-century Burgundian king.
He appears in the medieval
German saga the Nibelungenlied, which has him wooing the Icelandic queen
Brunhild.
He wins her hand in marriage with the help of the hero
Siegfried.
He ultimately betrays
Siegfried, but
Siegfried's widow
Kriemhild (
Gunther's sister) takes her revenge upon him.This was also the name of an 11th-century saint who was a hermit in Bavaria and Bohemia.
Origin
German, Germanic Mythology
Pronunciation
/ˈɡʊn.tɐ/(German)