Yngvi

"Yngvi-Freyr builds the Uppsala temple" (1830) by Hugo Hamilton.

Old Norse Yngvi [ˈyŋɡwɪ], Old High German Ing/Ingwi and Old English Ing are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones, or more accurately Ingvaeones, and is also the reconstructed name of the Elder Futhark rune ᛜ and Anglo-Saxon rune ᛝ, representing ŋ.

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