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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

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Ingifrid

Old Norse Ingifríðr (f.)

Ingifríðr appears fairly frequently in Denmark and Sweden. The name is attested twice in England during the Middle Ages in the forms Ingefrit and Ingefrid in documents from Lincolnshire and Yorkshire respectively.

It is an Old Norse compound name with its first element Ingi-, which is of doubtful origin but might relate to a Greek word meaning ‘lance’ or  ‘staff’ combined with and the second element -fríðr, related to Gothic  frījōn ‘to love’, with original meaning ‘loved’, later ‘fair’. In origin it is thus the same name as Ingiríðr.

Old Norse Name

Ingifríðr

Anglicised Name

Ingifrid

Gender

Female

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, personal-name

Further information

References

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 150, 344, 348.

 

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