Ingeborg

Ingeborg is Old Norse poetry in two mouthfuls, joining the fertility god Ing with borg, fortress or protection, to mean Ing's protection or stronghold of Ing. In the medieval Icelandic sagas an Ingeborg is nearly always at the emotional center of the story, loved and fought over by kings and warriors. Grieg set her name to music in his Sigurd Jorsalfar suite. Norwegian writer Ingeborg Refling Hagen and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann both carried it into modern literature. Three syllables of deep, resonant heritage. Ingeborg reads ancient, tall, and northern, a name built like a carved wooden gate into an older, colder country.