Val-

Meaning of Old Norse word "val-"

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

Old Norse word val- can mean: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.

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