Garðar (; ; also spelled Gardar) is an Old Norse word meaning "strongholds", "enclosures" or "settlements". It may refer to: also means Garðar in Icelandic
Places and jurisdictions In the meaning "strongholds": Garðaríki, modern territory of Belarus, western Russia and Ukraine.
In the meaning "settlements": Garðar, Greenland, a Norse settlement and titular see Gardar, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in the US, built up chiefly by Icelanders
Persons Garðar Árnason (born 1938), Icelandic footballer Garðar Thór Cortes (born 1974), Icelandic tenor Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976), Norwegian-born artist Garðar Gunnlaugsson (born 1983), Icelandic football forward Garðar Jóhannsson (born 1980), Icelandic football striker Garðar Svavarsson (fl. 860s), Swede who was the first Scandinavian to live on Iceland
See also Homo gardarensis, a paleontological false type of man named after the above Greenland town Garðarsson