Inga written in Viking Age runes (Group A)
Inga written in Viking Age runes (Group A)

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

Inga written in Viking Age runes (Group A) Inga written in Viking Age runes (Group B) Inga written in medieval runes (Group C)

Inga

Old Norse Inga (f.)

Inga is very common in Denmark and Sweden (where it appears in a number of runic inscriptions) and probably spread from these two areas into Norway in the thirteenth century. where the name remained popular thereafter; however, it is also possible that Inga developed independently in Norway. In the Danelaw, Inga appears in medieval documents from Lincolnshire as early as c. 1160.

The name is a short form of Old Norse female names in Ing(i)-, which is of doubtful origin but perhaps related to a Greek word meaning ‘lance, staff’.

 

Old Norse Name

Inga

Anglicised Name

Inga

Gender

Female

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, Lincolnshire, personal-name

Further information

References

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 149.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 624-625.

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