vangr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow, slope”). Cognate with Old English wang, wong, Old Saxon wang, Old High German wang, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (waggs).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈwɑ̃ŋɡr̩/
Noun
vangr m (genitive vangs, plural vangar)
- (poetic, especially in compounds) a garden, field, meadow
- Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, verse 15, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 104:
- Þá var und hjálmum / á Himinvanga, […]
- Then was under helmets, on the heaven-meadows
- Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, verse 15, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 104:
Declension
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | vangr | vangrinn | vangar | vangarnir |
| accusative | vang | vanginn | vanga | vangana |
| dative | vangi | vanginum | vǫngum | vǫngunum |
| genitive | vangs | vangsins | vanga | vanganna |
- ᚢᚭᚴᛁ (uąki) — dative singular, Rök runestone
Derived terms
- allvangr, allmannavangr (“place of assembly”)
- baugvangr (“shield”)
- fleyvangr (“sea”)
- fólkvangr (“shield”)
- geirvangr (“shield”)
- geðvangr (“breast”)
- himinvangr (“heaven”)
- hjǫrvangr (“shield”)
- hlævangr (“heaven”)
- húnvangr (“sea”)
- ormvangr (“gold”)
- sólvangr (“heaven”)
- vangroð (“bloody fray”)
- álvangr (“sea”)
- Þrúðvangr (“Thor's abode”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “vangr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 678
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vangr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 470; also available at the Internet Archive