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. Information on Yngvi varies in different traditions as follows:
- Yngvi is a name of the god Frey, perhaps intended as Frey's true name while Frey 'Lord' is his common title. In the Ynglinga saga and in Gesta Danorum, Frey is euhemerized as a king of Sweden. In the Ynglinga saga, Yngvi-Frey reigned in succession to his father Njörd who in turn succeeded Odin. Yngvi-Frey's descendants were the Ynglings.
- In the Islendíngabók Yngvi Tyrkja konungr 'Yngvi king of Turkey' appears as father of Njörd who in turn is the father of Yngvi-Frey, the ancestor of the Ynglings.
- 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." Snorri here does not identify Yngvi and Frey though Frey occasionally appears elsewhere as son of a Odin instead of a son of Njörd. See Sons of Odin.
- 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". 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". In the related account in the Ćttartolur ('Genealogies') attached to Hversu Noregr byggdistHversu Noregr byggdist ( Old Norse Hversu Noregr byggdist meaning How Norway was inhabited which survives only in the Flatey Book is a account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages. It traces the descedendants of the primeval Finnish ruler, the name Skelfir appears instead of Yngvi in the list of Halfdan's sons. For more details see ScylfingOld English Scylfing and Old Norse Skilfing Skilfingr is the name of a legendary genealogical lineage or clan. Swedish kings are identified as Scylfings in the Old English poem Beowulf''. In Norse sources the Skilfings Skilfingar are vaguely identified in
(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. See Yngvi and AlfYngvi and Alf were two legendary Swedish kings of the house of Scylfings. Ynglingatal According to Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and Ynglinga saga, Yngvi and Alf were the sons of Alrik. Yngvi was an accomplished king: a great warrior who always won his)
Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Carl Grimm ( January 4, 1785 September 20, 1863), German philologist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and the mother was left with very small means; but her sister, in his Teutonic Mythology and many others have considered it likely that Yngvi was originally identical to Ing/Ingo/Ingui, the legendary eponymous ancestor of the IngvaeonesAlso referred to as Ingaevones, North Sea Germans Ingwaonen Nordsee-Germanen in German). West Germanic cultural group or proto-tribe along the North Sea coast. Their name comes from Tacitus’ Germania (c. 98 CE) who categorized them as one of the three tri.
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