--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:

>
> In at least one Old Norse runic

inscription, a woman is identified as the "wife of..." using the more
normal word 'kona' "woman, wife" -- in normalised spelling:

> Þyrvé, Végauts kona, lét reisa stein þenna eptir Þorbjörn, son Sibbu,

systling sinn, er hon hugði betr en svásem syni.

> "Þyrvé, Végautr's wife, had this stone raised in memory of Þorbjörn,

son of Sibbi, her cousin, whom she cared for more than had he been her
own son / than a dear son."


But this is not to say that she would have been called *Végautskona as
part of her name.