Meaning & History
From the Old Norse name Egill, a diminutive of names that began with the element agi "awe, fear" [1] [2] . This was the name of a semi-legendary 10th-century Viking, described in the Icelandic Egill's Saga.
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Sources & References
- Peterson, Lena. Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. Uppsala, 2007, page 260.
- Cleasby, Richard and Gudbrand Vigfusson. An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874), entry agi, available from https://old-norse.net/html/a.php#agi.
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Entry updated May 26, 2026