The Old Norse name Yngvi is a hypocoristic form of an older and rarer Yngvin ( OHG: Inguin, OE: Ingwine ), which is derived from the theonym Ing-and means " worshiper or friend of Ing ".

* Yngvi is a name of the god Freyr, perhaps intended as Freyr's true name while Frey ' Lord ' is his common title.

* In the Íslendingabók Yngvi Tyrkja konungr ' Yngvi king of Turkey ' appears as father of Njörd who in turn is the father of Yngvi-Freyr, the ancestor of the Ynglings.

* In the Skáldskaparmál section of Snorri Sturluson's Edda Snorri brings in the ancient king Halfdan the Old who is the father of nine sons whose names are all words meaning ' king ' or ' lord ' in Old Norse and nine other sons who are the forefathers of various royal lineages, including " Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are descended ".

( The Yngling Saga section of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla also introduces a second Yngvi son of Alrek who is a descendant of Yngvi-Frey and who shared the Swedish kingship with his brother Álf.

" Ingo " means " protected by Yngvi ", who is the main god for the Ingvaeones, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god Freyr.

See Yngvi for discussions of this personage who is mostly identical with Frey in extant texts, even though in almost all sources Frey ( often called Yngvi-Frey ) is instead the son of Njörd.

In the original story a character in a jail comes to the bars every hour on the hour to announce that " Yngvi is a louse !".

Who, or what, Yngvi is has never been determined.

Inga is a Germanic first name for females, meaning " protected by Yngvi " ( Germanic God of fertility etc .).

The Angles were part of the Federation of the Ingaevones, with their mythical ancestor and god of fertility Yngvi, and both terms might well share the same root ( inglish -> anglish ), say as the origin of the federation.

In Scandinavian mythology, Yngvi, alternatively Yngve, was the progenitor of the Yngling lineage, a legendary dynasty of Swedish kings from whom the earliest historical Norwegian kings in turn claimed to be descended, see also Freyr.

Yngvi and Alf were two legendary Swedish kings of the House of Yngling.

They were all slain at Samsø, by the Swedish champion Hjalmar, and his Norwegian sworn brother Orvar-Odd ; but Hjalmar, being wounded by Tyrfing ( its first evil deed ), has only time to sing his death-song before he dies, and asks Orvar-Odd to bring his body to Ingeborg, daughter of Yngvi at Uppsala.

* The daughter of the Swedish king Yngvi, who was in love with the Swedish hero Hjalmar.

* In the introduction to Snorri Sturluson's Edda Snorri claims again that Odin reigned in Sweden and relates: " Odin had with him one of his sons called Yngvi, who was king in Sweden after him ; and those houses come from him that are named Ynglings.

But rather oddly Snorri immediately follows this with information on what should be four other personages who were not sons of Halfdan but who also fathered dynasties and names the first of these as " Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are descended ".

Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are descended ;

from Yngvi, the Ynglings are descended ;

In 1220 AD ( c .), in the Skáldskaparmál section of Edda, Sturluson discusses King Halfdan the Old, Nór's great-grandson, and nine of his sons who are the forefathers of various royal lineages, including " Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are descended ".

In 1220 AD ( c .), in the Skáldskaparmál section of Edda, Snorri Sturluson discusses King Halfdan the Old, Nór's great-grandson, and nine of his sons who are the forefathers of various royal lineages, including " Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are descended ".

One of the sons of Odin was Yngvi, founder of the Ynglingar, an early royal family of Sweden.

The High King of the Elves in the West was Ingwë, an echo of the name Yngvi often found as a name for Frey, whose abode was in Álfheim according to the Grímnismál.

Then the Inguaeones, ( the " people of Yngvi "), begin.

He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son Skjöldr.

" Snorri here does not identify Yngvi and Frey though Frey occasionally appears elsewhere as a son of Odin instead of a son of Njörd.

In the related account in the Ættartolur (' Genealogies ') attached to Hversu Noregr byggdist, the name Skelfir appears instead of Yngvi in the list of Halfdan's sons.

See Yngvi and Alf.

But Yngvi has been previously named as a son of Halfdan the Old and the Skjöldungs and Skilfings are counted among Halfdan's descendants in the Hyndluljód.

The list of the second nine sons has Skelfir instead of Yngvi and the form Næfil ( Næfill ) instead of Nefir.

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Yngvi and Alf slaying each other.

Some identify the sons as Freyr ( aka Yngvi ) and Thor and Odin ( aka Jormun ) of the Icelandic Eddas.

* Yngvi.

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