Sigtrygg

Sigtrygg (Sigtryggr) is an Old Norse given name, composed of the elements sig "victory" and trygg "trusty, true". It is cognate with the Anglo-Saxon Sihtric.

In Norse-Gaelic Ireland (9th to 11th centuries) rendered as Sitric or Sihtric (the patronymic Sigtryggsson as mac Sitriuc).

The name is only rarely given in modern Scandinavian countries; it is mostly encountered in Iceland, in the form Sigtryggur, with 99 entries for the name in the Icelandic white pages as of 2013.[1]

People called Sigtrygg

The names may refer to any of the following people:

  • Sigtryggr, Sure of victory (Victory-true), one of the 99 names of Óðinn Alföðr [2]
  • Kings of Dublin:
  • Sigtrygg Gnupasson, a 10th-century Danish king of the House of Olaf
  • Sigtrygg of Nerike, a Swede who met Saint Olaf
  • Sitric the Dane, an 11th-century ruler of Waterford
  • Sitric mac Ualgairg, king of Breifne 1256/7

References
  1. Símaskrá (official Icelandic phonebook) ja.is; the Swedish form Sigtrygg is on record for three individuals in Sweden and four in Finland; the Icelandic form Sigtryggur by three individuals in Denmark and one in Sweden. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/ ; Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk ; Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  2. Óðins nöfn
  • Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)

See also
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