Definitionen
Definitionen
1 VIGR
f., pl. vigrar, [the short vowel and the radical r are against deriving vigr from víg]:—a spear, Edda (Gl.); flugbeittra vigra, Hornklofi; vigrar rjóða, to redden the spears (vigrat Cod.), id.; vel hefir vigr of skepta, Kormak; vigrar seiðr, a spear-charm, spear-song, i. e. battle, Sturl. (in a verse); vigra dunur, dynr, él, = the din, song, shower of spears, Lex. Poët. passim.
2 VIGR
II. Vigr, a local name of an island (in shape like a spear’s head) in north-western Icel.; í Vigr (acc.), Bs. i. 651; í eynni Vigr (dat.), 652: in the Orkneys, the mod. Veir; in the Orkn. S. Fb. ii. l. 9 from the bottom, einn ‘ungr’ read ‘í Vigr’ (i. e. Veir, the island where Kolbein Hrúga lived, after whom is named ‘the Castle of Cuppi Row’).
Runeninschrift
Runeninschrift
VIGR
Der obige Runentext stellt das altnordische Wort "VIGR" dar, wie es in Runeninschriften aus der Wikingerzeit (ca. 800-1100 n. Chr.) erscheinen könnte.