Editing Rygge (section)

=== Name ===
The municipality (originally the [[parish]]) is named after the old ''Rygge'' farm, since the first church was built there. The [[Old Norse]] form of the name is not known (the oldest manuscripts from 1353-1528 use the form "Ryg(g)jof"). A possible (but uncertain) reconstruction is ''Rýgjuhof''. The first element would then be the [[genitive case]] of ''rýgja'', a sideform of ''rýgr'' which means "lady". (Like ''ylgja'' to ''ylgr'', both forms with the meaning 'she-wolf'.) The last element is probably ''hof'' meaning "[[temple]]".  If this is correct, then the word ''rýgja'' most probably is referring to the goddess [[Freyja]], since the meaning of the word ''freyja'' also is 'lady'.

An alternative explanation is that the word is derived from ''"rygg"'', which means ''"ridge"'', and related to place names like ''"Ryen"'' further east. The "ridge" in question would be the end [[moraine]] that runs across the landscape here, from the other side of the [[fjord]] and stretching east through [[Sweden]] and into the [[Baltic region]]. In Østfold, this moraine is referred to as the ''"[[Vestfoldraet|Raet]]"''.