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Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Iði "The moveable", "The hard-working one" None attested: Father: Alvaldi Brothers: Gangr, Þjazi: Nafnaþulur, Skáldskaparmál, Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Íma: the grey one, battle: Nafnaþulur: Imðr: the grey one, battle: None attested
Trygve is a masculine given name most common in Norway. Trygve is derived from the Old Norse tryggr, meaning "true, trustworthy", [ 1][ 2] cognate with Old English treowe, Old High German triuwe. Gothic has triggws . The Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse form of the name is Tryggvi, e.g. Tryggve Olafsson .
Meaning. spear. Region of origin. Norway. Geir is a masculine name commonly given in Norway and Iceland. It is derived from Old Norse geirr "spear", a common name element in Germanic names in general, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (whence also Old High German gêr, Old English gâr, Gothic gaisu ). [1]
Sigurd (name) Sigurd or Sigur (Pronounced the same) is a Scandinavian male name used in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland derived from the Old Norse Sigurðr (from sigr "victory" and varðr "guardian"). [1] Other forms of this name are Sigvard and Siward. [2] A short form of the name is Sjur .
Yngve is a Scandinavian male given name, mostly used in Sweden and Norway. It is the modern form of either Old Norse Yngvi or of Ingwin . Yngvi was the Old Norse name of the Germanic god Ingu-, later identified with Freyr, or of Ingwian- "belonging to the tribe of the Ingvaeones " (who were in turn named after Ingu-.