vangr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow, slope”). Cognate with Old English wang, wong, Old Saxon wang, Old High German wang, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (waggs).

Pronunciation

(12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑ̃ŋɡr̩/

Noun

vangr m (genitive vangs, plural vangar)

(poetic, especially in compounds) a garden, field, meadow
- Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, verse 15, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 104:
  Þá var und hjálmum / á Himinvanga, […]
  Then was under helmets, on the heaven-meadows

Declension

Declension of vangr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vangr	vangrinn	vangar	vangarnir
accusative	vang	vanginn	vanga	vangana
dative	vangi	vanginum	vǫngum	vǫngunum
genitive	vangs	vangsins	vanga	vanganna

ᚢᚭᚴᛁ (uąki) — dative singular, Rök runestone

Derived terms

Terms derived from vangr

allvangr, allmannavangr (“place of assembly”)
álvangr (“sea”)
baugvangr (“shield”)
fleyvangr (“sea”)
fólkvangr (“shield”)
geirvangr (“shield”)
geðvangr (“breast”)
himinvangr (“heaven”)
hlævangr (“heaven”)
hjǫrvangr (“shield”)
húnvangr (“sea”)
ormvangr (“gold”)
sólvangr (“heaven”)
vangroð (“bloody fray”)
Þrúðvangr (“Thor's abode”)

Descendants

Icelandic: vangur m
Norwegian Bokmål: vang m
Norwegian Nynorsk: vang m
Old Swedish: vanger
- Swedish: vång
Old Danish: vang

References

“vangr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
vangr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
vangr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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