From: xigung
Message: 4195
Date: 2004-02-19
> Sagas are full with similarDoes that mean that the vikings descended from a man named "Vik"?
> names of families ending in -ingar (pl.) and derived from the name of
> a common ancestor. We find similar denominations for folks in Gothic,
> Vandalic, Longobardic (Greotungi, Tervingi, Hasdingi, etc...)
> It has nothing to with /ungr/ "young" which comes from /jung-/ and
> has initial /j-/ regularly disappeared.
>