3821) Ingwaz Rune: A Rune minted by the Germania Mint: Date/Year of Rune issue: 2024:
Description:
Old Norse Yngvi [ˈyŋɡwe],
Old High German Ing/Ingwi and Old English Ing are
names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for
the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the
Ingaevones, or more accurately Ingvaeones, and is also the reconstructed name
of the Elder Futhark rune ᛜ and
Anglo-Saxon rune.
Old Norse Yngvi as well as Old High German Inguin and Old
English Ingƿine
are all derived from the Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz. Sound changes in
late-Proto-Germanic transformed *Ingwaz into *Ingwi(z) in the nominative case
and *Ingwin in the accusative case. His epithet *Fraujaz appears in Old Norse
compounds Ingvifreyr and Ingunarfreyr.
In Beowulf we see Hrothgar called (OE) fréa inguina, which means 'Lord of the
Inguins', i.e. lord of the Ingvaeones, the 'friends of Ing'. This strongly
indicates that the two deities, Ing and Freyr are indeed the same. However, it
is also possible that Ing and Freyr were separate people because they had
different fathers. Ing's father was Mannus.
Freyr's father was Njörðr. The Ingvaeones, who occupied a territory roughly equivalent to modern Denmark, Frisia, Northern Germany, and the Low Countries at the turn of the millennium, were mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural Histories as one of "five Germanic tribes". Tacitus asserts their descent from the three sons of Mannus or *Mannaz cognate with Manus in Hinduism, the 'first man', of whom *Ingwaz may have been one. Other names that retain the theonym are Inguiomerus or Ingemar and Yngling, the name of an old Scandinavian dynasty.
The ŋ rune together
with Peorð and Eihwaz is among the problematic cases of runes of uncertain
derivation unattested in early inscriptions. The rune may have been an original
innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet's Q.
The rune first appears independently on the futhark row of the Kylver Stone,
and is altogether unattested as an independent rune outside of such rows. There
are a number of attestations of the i͡ŋ bind rune or
(the "lantern rune", similar in shape to the Anglo-Saxon gēr
rune ᛄ),
but its identification is disputed in most cases, since the same sign may also
be a cipher rune of “wynn” or “thurisaz”.
The earliest case of such an i͡ŋ bindrune of reasonably certain reading
is the inscription mari͡ŋs
(perhaps referring to the "Mærings"
or Ostrogoths on the silver buckle of Szabadbattyán, dated to the first half 5th century and conserved at
the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest).
The Old English rune poem contains these
obscure lines:
ᛝ Ing ƿæs ærest
mid Eástdenum
geseƿen secgum, oð he
síððan e[á]st
ofer ƿæg geƿát. ƿæn æfter ran.
þus Heardingas þone hæle nemdon.
"ᛝ Ing
was first amidst the East Danes
seen by men, until he eastward
over the sea departed; his wagon ran after.
Thus the Heardings named that hero."
A torc, the so-called "Ring of Pietroassa", part of a late third to fourth century Gothic hoard discovered in Romania, is inscribed in much-damaged runes, one reading of which is gutanī [i(ng)]wi[n] hailag "to Ingwi[n] of the Goths holy".
In Norse mythology, Yngvi, alternatively spelled Yngve, was the progenitor of the Yngling lineage, a legendary dynasty of Swedish kings, from whom also the earliest historical Norwegian kings claimed to be descended. Yngvi is a name of the god Freyr, perhaps Freyr's true name, as freyr means 'lord' and has probably evolved from a common invocation of the god.
In the Íslendingabók (written in the early twelfth century by the Icelandic priest Ari Þorgilsson) Yngvi Tyrkja konungr 'Yngvi king of Turkey' appears as the father of Njörðr who in turn is the father of Yngvi-Freyr, ancestor of the Ynglings. According to the Skjöldunga saga (a lost epic from 1180 to 1200, saved only partially in other sagas and later translation) Odin came from Asia and conquered Northern Europe. He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son Skjöldr. Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs.
In the Gesta Danorum (late twelfth century, by Saxo Grammaticus) and in the Ynglinga saga (ca. 1225, by Snorri Sturluson), Freyr is euhemerized as a king of Sweden. In the Ynglinga saga, Yngvi-Freyr reigned in succession to his father Njörðr who had – in this variant – succeeded Odin. In the Historia Norwegiæ (written around 1211), in contrast, Ingui is the first king of Sweden, and the father of a certain Neorth, in his turn the father of Froyr: "Rex itaque Ingui, quem primum Swethiæ monarchiam rexisse plurimi astruunt, genuit Neorth, qui vero genuit Froy; hos ambos tota illorum posteritas per longa sæcula ut deos venerati sunt. Froyr vero genuit Fiolni, qui in dolio medonis dimersus est […]"
In the introduction to his Edda (originally composed around 1220) Snorri Sturluson claimed 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 Freyr, although Freyr occasionally appears elsewhere as a son of Odin instead of a son of Njörðr.
In the Skáldskaparmál section of his Prose 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, as well as of 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 again as "Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are descended". In the related account in the Ættartolur "Genealogies" attached to Hversu Noregr byggðist, the name Skelfir appears instead of Yngvi in the list of Halfdan's sons.
The Ynglinga Saga section of Snorri's Heimskringla (around 1230) introduces a second Yngvi, son of Alrekr, who is a descendant of Yngvi-Freyr and who shared the Swedish kingship with his brother Álf (see Yngvi and Alf).
Ingwaz 1 oz Ag 999.9 Cast Rune:
Ingwaz Rune
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