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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While Icelandic writer Jon Atli Jonassan found the 2009 run of his play The Deep helped him into filmmaking.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024

According to the firm's managing director Atli Gregersen this will reduce its transportation CO2 emissions by more than 90%.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2021

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

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

But Atli did not seem content, and at last he said: ‘What will Njal think?’

From The Red Romance Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

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