Végarðr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Old Norse vé (“home”) + garðr (in the older, abstract meaning “protection”).

Proper noun

Végarðr m

1. a male given name

Descendants

• Norwegian: Vegard, Vegar

Further reading

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) “Vegard”, in Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN
• Roland Otterbjörk, Svenska förnamn, Stockholm 1964