Ætt 1 · Pos. 6
Name
Ing, a name. In the Nordic sources it is Yngvi, one of Freyr’s names.
Meaning
In the English poem Ing comes to the Danes and leaves by sea, his wagon behind him. A power that arrives and leaves by wagon belongs to the Vanir: Tacitus tells of Nerthus carried among the people in a wagon, then washed in a hidden lake. Her name is the same as Njörðr’s, and Freyr was born to Njörðr and his sister, so she may well be Freyr’s mother. Ing is Freyr, whom Nordic sources call Yngvi-Freyr. In Grímnismál the Æsir give him Álfheimr, home of the elves, as a tooth-gift.
English Rune Poem
Ing was first
among the East-Danes
seen by men,
until he later went east
over the waves;
his wagon ran after;
so the Heardings
named the hero.
