Sigtrygg
Sigtrygg (Sigtryggr) is an Old Norse given name, composed of the elements sig 'victory' and trygg 'trusty, true'. It is cognate with the Anglo-Saxon Sihtric.
In Norse-Gaelic Ireland (9th to 11th centuries) rendered as Sitric or Sihtric (the patronymic Sigtryggsson as mac Sitriuc).
The name is only rarely given in modern Scandinavian countries; it is mostly encountered in Iceland, in the form Sigtryggur, with 99 entries for the name in the Icelandic white pages as of 2013.[1]
People called Sigtrygg
[edit]The names may refer to any of the following people:
- Sigtryggr, Sure of victory (Victory-true), one of the 99 names of Óðinn Alföðr [2]
- Sigtryg, the legendary father of Svipdagr, king of Norway, according to Gesta Danorum.
- Kings of Dublin:
- Sigtrygg Ivarsson, 888–893
- Sigtrygg Caech (Sigtrygg Gael), 917–921, king of York 921–927
- Sigtrygg, 941–943
- Sigtrygg Silkbeard Olafsson, 989–1036
- Sigtrygg Gnupasson, a 10th-century Danish king of the House of Olaf
- Sigtrygg of Nerike, a Swede who met Saint Olaf
- Sitric the Dane, an 11th-century ruler of Waterford
- Sitric mac Ualgairg, king of Breifne 1256/7
- Sigtryggur Baldursson, musician, best known as a member of the icelandic band The Sugarcubes
See also
[edit]- Mac Sitric, Irish masculine surname
- Sitric Roads, Stoneybatter, County Dublin
- Irish people
- Norse people
References
[edit]- ^ Símaskrá (official Icelandic phonebook) ja.is; the Swedish form Sigtrygg is on record for three individuals in Sweden and four in Finland; the Icelandic form Sigtryggur by three individuals in Denmark and one in Sweden. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/ ; Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk ; Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ^ Óðins nöfn
- Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)