The story
- Old Norse · derived fromgeirfugl“great auk”
- Icelandic · borrowed fromgeirfugl
- English todaygarefowl
From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.