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

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑŋɡr̩/

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, […]

     High under helms / on heaven's field, […]

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

• Norwegian Bokmål: vang m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vang m

• 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.