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Vagn is an Old Norse masculine given name, meaning "vehicle; wagon, wain". It was the name of a famous 10th-century Jomsviking, Vagn Åkesson. The Old Norse was revived in modern Scandinavia – the fist modern bearer of the name on record is Vagn Ekman (1874-1954), a Swedish oceanographer.〔Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)〕 The name became primarily popular in Denmark during the 1920s and 1930s.〔Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)〕 Other people called Vagn include: *Vagn Bennike (1888–1970), Danish resistance fighter during WWII *Vagn Holmboe (1909–1996), a Danish composer. *Vagn Hovard (1914–1998), Danish field hockey player *Vagn Jørgensen (fl. 1930s), Danish sprint canoer *Vagn F. Flyger (1922–2006), Danish-American wildlife biologist *Vagn Schmidt (b. 1935), Danish sprint canoer *Vagn Nielsen (b. 1943), Danish handball player ==Pronunciation== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vagn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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