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Ulrica
Ulrica
English
Alternative forms
- Ullrica, Ullricka (rare)
Proper noun
Ulrica
- A female given name, rare in English.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, chapter XXX:
- Farewell, Front-de-Boeuf! — May Mista, Skogula, and Zernebock, gods of the ancient Saxons – fiends, as the priests now call them – supply the place of comforters at your dying bed, which Ulrica now relinquishes!
- 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand, "Ulrica":
- "Forever is a word forbidden to men," asserted Ulrica and, to lighten the emphasis, she asked me to repeat my name, which she had not caught. "Javier Otárola," I told her. She tried to repeat it and couldn't. I failed, equally, with the name Ulrikke.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, chapter XXX:
Translations
female given name