vangr

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)

  1. (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
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vangr vangrinn vangar vangarnir
accusative vang vanginn vanga vangana
dative vangi vanginum vǫngum vǫngunum
genitive vangs vangsins vanga vanganna

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
  • 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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