VIGR

(pl. vigrar), f. poet. spear.

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f., pl. vigrar, [the short vowel and the radical r are against deriving vigr from víg]:—a spear, Edda (Gl.); flugbeittra vigra, Hornklofi; vigrar rjóða, to redden the spears (vigrat Cod.), id.; vel hefir vigr of skepta, Kormak; vigrar seiðr, a spear-charm, spear-song, i. e. battle, Sturl. (in a verse); vigra dunur, dynr, él, = the din, song, shower of spears, Lex. Poët. passim.

II. Vigr, a local name of an island (in shape like a spear’s head) in north-western Icel.; í Vigr (acc.), Bs. i. 651; í eynni Vigr (dat.), 652: in the Orkneys, the mod. Veir; in the Orkn. S. Fb. ii. l. 9 from the bottom, einn ‘ungr’ read ‘í Vigr’ (i. e. Veir, the island where Kolbein Hrúga lived, after whom is named ‘the Castle of Cuppi Row’).