Tryggvi

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Tryggvi ("the faithful") is an Old Norse male given name . It is still used in Iceland today, in the form Trygve also in Norway and in the spelling Trygvi in the Faroe Islands . In Sweden it is mostly written Tryggve , but much less often given.

Origin and meaning

Tryggvi is the specific form of the Old Norse adjective tryggr , which means something like "sincere, truthful, trustful, loyal, reliable" and goes back to a common Germanic * trewwa , which also resulted in German loyal and English true "true".

In medieval sources Tryggve / Tryggr occasionally represents a short form of two-part first names such as Sigtryggr and is also used as an epithet , for example in the Grettis saga an "Ingalf tryggvi í Hvini" is mentioned. As a separate nickname he's first in the 10th century in the form of the Norwegian Viking King Tryggvi Ólafsson detectable, but it is conceivable that he is already in Urnordischen ( * Triggwa ) arose. Against the assumption that he is one of the inherited from the common Germanic name, says that the West Germanic cognates of tryggr as ahd. Triuwi , ae. trēowe / trīewe , asächs . triuwi etc. were not used as a nickname, but at most as a nickname or surname (" the loyal Eckart "); In the Mhd. literature the word triuwe was avoided as far as possible because of its connotation with feudal dependence and bondage and therefore hardly played a role in the numerous two-part name coining of the Middle Ages. The family name Trigg , which has been documented in England since early Middle English times, is in turn borrowed from an. Tryggr .

A possible primordial correspondence to the Old Norse Tryggvi can only be found in Gothic , i.e. in an East Germanic language, in the form of Triwa , caretaker of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric . Its name has been handed down in various variants ( Triggwa , Triwila , Triggwila , Traggwila ) by six late antique or early medieval authors and its interpretation is controversial, but it often becomes Gothic . Triggwa "Alliance, federal loyalty , fulfillment of duty" and triggws "loyal, reliable" placed, which is also part of the word clasp around urgerm. * belong to trewwa .

distribution

As a baptismal name Tryggvi (in Alto-Eastern Norse Tryggi or Trygge ) was widespread throughout Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, but afterwards it became increasingly uncommon. It only came back into fashion with the Viking romanticism of the late 19th century, especially in Norway, where Tryggvi Óláfsson and his son Óláfr Tryggvason , king of the country at the time of Christianization around 1000, played an important role in the national romantic transfiguration of the Middle Ages. The most important Trygve that this period produced is Trygve Lie (1896–1968), the first Secretary General of the United Nations. After 1950, the name's popularity declined significantly. In 2015, around 5,400 bearers of this name lived in Norway, which corresponds to less than 0.2% of the total population.

name day

Until 1993 August 23 was the name day of Tryggvi , since then it has been September 25 .

Name bearer

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan de Vries : Old Norse etymological dictionary. 4th edition. Brill, Leiden 2000, p. 599 sv tryggr .
  2. ↑ Gretti's saga Ásmundarsonar . Edited by RC Boer. Max Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale 1900, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Lena Peterson: runnamnslexikon Nordiskt . (PDF) 5th, revised edition. Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Uppsala 2007, p. 223 sv TryggR and Tryggvi .
  4. ^ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn . Uppsala 2004, p. 32, sv * Triggwa .
  5. ↑ faithful. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 22 : Treib – Tz - (XI, 1st section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1952, Sp. 243-275 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ). (Col. 246: "[...] in the mhd. Literature the adj. Triuwe has been avoided for centuries with surprising consistency; it was only slowly coming into use again around 1300, understandably especially in md. Area”).
  6. ↑ Gottfried Schramm : Two-part personal names of the Germanic peoples: An image type as a broken reflection of early heroic songs. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, p. 80; "Treuhild", "Bleibtreu" and other supposed exceptions are new creations of the 18th and 19th centuries.
  7. ^ Erik Björkman : Nordic personal names in England in Old and Early Middle English times . Max Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale 1910, p. 145 sv Trig, Trigg .
  8. ^ Moritz Schönfeld: Dictionary of old Germanic names of persons and peoples; according to the tradition of classical antiquity . Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg 1911, p. 241, sv Triggva .
  9. ↑ Norbert Wagner: Triggvilla * * Tragvila and Triwila *. To -ggv-: -w- in two Ostrogoth names . In: Contributions to name research 38, 2003, pp. 275–279; What is remarkable is the identical tightening of the final in Gothic and Old Norse to -ggw- or -ggv- , which, however, does not originate from an original common Germanic form, but is the result of a change in sound that only becomes apparent after the branches have been separated both in the East and in North Germanic (but not in West Germanic).
  10. ↑ Magnús Snædal: Gothic <ggw> . (PDF) In: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensi 128, 2011, S, 145–154.
  11. ^ Entry Tryggve in: Bengt af Klintberg : Namnen i almanackan . Norstedts ordbok, Stockholm 2004.
  12. ↑ Query of the name statistics from Statistisk sentralbyrå , November 2, 2015.
  13. ^ Entry Tryggve in: Bengt af Klintberg : Namnen i almanackan. Norstedts ordbok, Stockholm 2004.