Val-

Significato della parola Old Norse "val-"

Come definito dal dizionario Old Norse to English di Cleasby & Vigfusson:

La parola Old Norse val- può significare:val-

val-

[A. S. wealh-], Welsh, foreign, in several compds, see below.

val-

II. in pr. names, Val-brandr, Val-garðr, Val-gautr, Val-þjófr; Val-þýflingar, m. pl. the descendants of Waltheof, Landn.: and of women, Val-dís, Val-gerðr, Landn.: it is strange that none of these names seem to appear on the old Runic monuments of Sweden and Denmark; they are therefore scarcely to be derived from valr (the slain), but from A. S. wealh = Welsh, foreign; in England such names were frequent; in Icel. they first appear in families connected with the British Isles; Valþjófr in the Landnáma is evidently borrowed from the English. In Sweden a Valgautr appears in the 11th century, Ó. H.

Possibile iscrizione runica in Fuþark recente:ᚢᛅᛚ-
Le rune Fuþark recenti sono state utilizzate dal 8° al 12° secolo in Scandinavia e nei loro insediamenti all'estero