Old Norse Yngvi and Old English Ing are names associated with a theonym that seems to have been the original name for the deity Freyr. Proto-Germanic Ingwaz was the mythical progenitor of the Ingaevones, or more precisely, Ingvaeones. Old Norse Yngvi, Old High German Inguin, and Old English Ingƿine all originate from the Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz. In Norse mythology, Yngvi, also spelled Yngve, was the ancestor of the Yngling line, a mythical dynasty of Swedish rulers, from whom the earliest recogn ... (Read More)