Gestumblindi is a personal name appearing in two medieval Scandinavian legendary texts: Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and (in the Latinised form as Gestiblindus) in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum.
[citation needed] Although generally attested in medieval sources as one word, the name Gestumblindi in rendered in the U-recension of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks as Gestr inn blindi, which means both 'Gestr the Blind' and 'the blind guest'.
It is thought that the transparently meaningful Gestr inn blindi is the origin of the name Gestumblindi.
[2]: 361 In Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Gestumblindi is a powerful man who has angered King Heiðrekr.
This summary is based on the R-recension of the saga, as edited by Christopher Tolkien;[3] the other medieval redactions are substantively similar.