Vigdis combines the Old Norse víg (battle) and dís (goddess). **Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (born 1930)** was the **President of Iceland (1980-1996)** — **the world's first directly elected female head of state**, and Iceland's longest-serving president. A divorced single mother elected by a landslide.
Used widely in modern Iceland and Norway.
Vigdis reduces to seven — the number of Icelandic president.