Kinga

Meaning of Old Norse word "kinga"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

kinga

u, f., also spelt qinga, [kengr; Shetl. keengs, a pewter brooch]:—a brooch worn on the breast by ladies, so called from the clasp (kengr) by which it was fastened; kinga var á bringu, Rm. 26; kross skal dóttir hafa eða kingu, hvárt sem hón vill, eða brjóst-búnað inn bezta, ef eigi er ór gulli görr, N. G. l. i. 211 (Js. 78); þar fannsk k. ok seiðstaðr mikill, Ld. 328. As foreign coins, or copies of them, were used as brooches (Worsaae, Nos. 398–409), δραχμή (Luke xv. 8), drachma of the Vulgate is rendered in an old version of the 12th century by kinga, ef kona nequer á tio qingor, … fagnið ér með mér, þvíat ek fann kingo mína; leita kingo, … en líkneski es merkð á kingo, … kinga fanzk es umb var snúit, Greg. Frump. 82, 83.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛁᚾᚴᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements