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HEROES.
is a distinctive mark of ancient gods, but also of heroes and kings ;
its being specially put forward here in connexion with a sea-
voyage, appears to indicate some feature of the legend that is
unknown to us (see Suppl,). Ing s residence in the east is
strikingly in harmony with a pedigree of the Ynglings given in the
Islendingabok (Isl. sog. 1, 19). Here at the head of all stands
Yngvi Tyrkja konungr/ immediately succeeded by divine beings,
NiorSr, Freyr, Fiolnir (a byname of OSinn), Svegdir, &c. In the
same way OSinn was called Tyrkja konungr (Sn. 068) from his
residing at Byzantium (p. 163 note). 1 The Ynglinga saga on the
other hand begins the line with NiorSr, after whom come Freyr,
Fiolnir and the rest ; but of Freyr, whom the wain would have
suited exactly, it is stated that he had another name Yngvi or
were named
Yngvifreyr (p. 211-2), and the whole race of Ynglingar
after him. 2
Ingingar or Ingvingar would be more exact, as
shown by the OHG. and AS. spelling, and confirmed by a host
is
of
very ancient names compounded with Ing or Ingo : Inguiomerus
(Ingimarus, Ingumar, or with asp. Hincmarus), Inguram, Ingimund,.
Ingiburc, Inginolt, &c. Even Saxo Gram, writes Ingo, Ingimarus.
As for Ynglingar, standing for Inglingar, it may be- formed from
the prolongation Ingil in Ingelwin, Ingelram, Ingelberga and the
Norse Ingellus, unless it is a mere confusion of the word with
ynglingr juvenis, OHG. jungilinc, AS. geongling, from the root
main
ung, June, geong, which has no business here at all (?).< The
point is, that the first genealogy puts Ingvi before Nior<5r, so that
he would be Frey s grandfather, while the other version makes him
be born again as it were in Freyr, and even fuses his name with
Frey s, of which there lurks a trace likewise in the AS. frea
Ingwina (p. 211). This Ingwina appears to be the gen. pi. of
Ingwine, OHG. Inguwini, and dominus Ingwiriorum need not
necessarily refer to the god, any hero might be so called. But with
perfect right may an Ingvi, Inguio be the patriarch
of a race that
1 Snorri sends him to Turkland, Saxo only as far as Byzantium. TRANS.
2 As the ON. genealogies have Yngvi, NiorSr, Freyr, the Old Swedish
tables in Geijer (hafder 118. 121. 475) give Inge, Neorch, Fro-, some have
Neoroch for Neorch, both being corruptions of Neorth. Now, was it by
running Ingvi and Freyr into one, that the combination Ingvifreyr (transposed
into AS. frea Ingwina) arose, or was he cut in two to make an additional
link 1 The Skaldskaparmal in Sn. 211 a calls Yngvifreyr OSin s son, and from
the enumeration of the twelve or thirteen Ases in Sn. 21 l b it cannot be doubted
that Yngvifreyr was regarded as equivalent to the simple Freyr.