1 RYGR
f., gen. rygjar, dat. and acc. rygi, pl. rygjar, Fas. i. 497:—a lady, housewife, Lat. matrona; rygr heitir sú kona er ríkust er, Edda 108; þann mann (a person to be adopted) skal leiða á reka (rekks?) skaut ok rygja(r), N. G. L. i. 209; rygr kvaðsk eiga inni álfa-blót, Sighvat; aldin rygr, an old lady, Kristni S. in a verse, (of a priestess); rygjar blóð, Sól. (dubious): baug-rygr (q. v.), a matron who receives of the baugr (weregild), enjoying the rights of an agnate.
2 RYGR
II. in local names, Rygjar-dalr, Sól.