Þul Á 3III/1 — Vína ‘Dvina’
Tifr, Durn, Vína, Tems, Vǫnd ok Strǫnd,
Mǫrn, móða, þrym, Morn ok Gautelfr,
alin, uðr, Alkoga ok Eufrátes,
ógn, eiðrennir ok Apardjón.
Tifr, Durn, Vína, Tems, Vǫnd ok Strǫnd, Mǫrn, móða, þrym, Morn ok Gautelfr, alin, uðr, Alkoga ok Eufrátes, ógn, eiðrennir ok Apardjón.
Tiber, Durn, Dvina, Thames, Vǫnd and Strǫnd, Marne, loamy stream, noise, Marne and Götaälv, nourished one, wave, Alkoga and Euphrates, terror, isthmus-runner and Aberdeen.
notes
[1] Vína (f.) ‘Dvina’: The Northern Dvina (cf. Dýna in st. 2/3; see also Note to Vín in st. 4/5). In Old Norse sources, Vína denotes several different rivers. In Grí 28/1 and Gylf (SnE 2005, 33) it is a mythical river. Because this name is spelled Vín á in the Codex Regius version of Grí, Sijmons and Gering (S-G I, 198) interpret it as ‘wine stream’. This river is also mentioned in the fornaldarsögur (Ǫrvar-Odds saga, ch. 4, FSN II, 174; Sturlaugs saga starfsama, ch. 18, FSN III, 626) and historical sagas (cf. ÓHHkr, ÍF 27, 229), where it is a river in Bjarmaland near the White Sea. In Eg (ch. 45, ÍF 2, 142) it could be the Old Norse name for the Wen, a small river in Gwynned, Wales (see SnE 1998, II, 518). The river-name is used in kennings both in skaldic poetry and in the later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Vína).