Atli

American

[aht-lee] / ˈɑt li /

noun

Scandinavian Legend.

Attila, king of the Huns: represented in the Volsunga Saga as the brother of Brynhild and the second husband of Gudrun, whose brothers he killed in order to get the Nibelung treasure.

Atli British

/ ˈɑːtlɪ /

noun

Norse myth a king of the Huns who married Gudrun for her inheritance and was slain by her after he killed her brothers

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Atli insists it’s not what it seems, but Agnes, clutching their 4-year-old daughter, promptly kicks him out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2018

Atli, as it turns out, does not help his cause by being feckless and self-aborbed, a natural born screw-up trapped in complications he never imagined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2018

Aiden McGeady produces a cross, Atli Gregersen gets a block in.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2013

The Faroes created a rare threat on goal when Atli Gregersen's header from a free-kick landed on the roof of the net.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2013

So spake the voice of Gudrun; suchwise she cast the seed O'er the gold-lust of King Atli for the day of the Niblungs' Need.

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris

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