Definiciones
Definiciones
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’).
Inscripción rúnica
Inscripción rúnica
VIGR
El texto rúnico anterior representa la palabra nórdica antigua "VIGR" como podría aparecer en inscripciones rúnicas de la Era Vikinga (c. 800-1100 d.C.).