Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 6136
Date: 2001-02-15

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
[snip]
>
> *Iggvars fits pefectly as well. I'm not sure about E Scandinavian
> form, but if it cointains -n- (something like Ingv-) it should be
> banned immediately - it had to yield Old Russian **E,gorI, Russ.
> **JagorI - nonexistent forms. Besides, Old Russian IgorI and
IngUvarI
> were consistently treated as being different (one prince of the
same
> family at the same time could bear the name of IgorI, while
another -
> IngUvarI). Two different sources?
>
> Sergei

I thought Gothic -gg- should be read -ng- as in Greek? AFAIK "Iggvar"
exists only as a Gothic writing of "Ingvar". Galster proposes Da.
Ivar (I don't know the exact ON form, but I know the name was used
then).

Torsten