Yrða

val-

óflokkað
[ wealh-], Welsh, foreign, in several compds, see below.
II. in names, Val-brandr, Val-garðr, Val-gautr, Val-þjófr; Val-þýflingar, the descendants of Waltheof, : and of women, Val-dís, Val-gerðr, : it is strange that none of these names seem to appear on the old Runic monuments of Sweden and Denmark; they are therefore scarcely to be derived from valr (the slain), but from wealh = Welsh, foreign; in England such names were frequent; in they first appear in families connected with the British Isles; Valþjófr in the Landnáma is evidently borrowed from the English. In Sweden a Valgautr appears in the 11th century,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
  • Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)