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.

People called Sigtrygg

The names may refer to any of the following people:

• Sigtryggr, one of the names of Óðinn according to Óðins nöfn.

• Sigtryg, a legendary king of Sweden according to Gesta Danorum. Father of Gróa. Slain by Gram.

Kings of Dublin:

• Sigtrygg Ivarsson, 888–893

• Sigtrygg Caech (Sigtrygg Gael), 917–921, king of York 921–927

• Sigtrygg, 941–943

• Sigtrygg Silkbeard Olafsson, 989–1036

  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

• Sigtryggur Baldursson, musician, best known as a member of the icelandic band The Sugarcubes

See also

• Mac Sitric, Irish masculine surname

• Sitric Roads, Stoneybatter, County Dublin

• Irish people

• Norse people

References

• Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)

External links

• nordicnames.de