Gjǫll, glit, gera, glóð ok valskjalf,
Ván, Víð, Vimur, ving ok Ýsa,
Síð, suðr, freka, Sœkin, einstika,
elfr, ró, ekla, Ekin, Rennandi.
Gjǫll, glit, gera, glóð ok valskjalf, Ván, Víð, Vimur, ving ok Ýsa, Síð, suðr, freka, Sœkin, einstika, elfr, ró, ekla, Ekin, Rennandi.
Gjǫll, shining, greedy one, glowing and valskjálf, Ván, Víð, Vimur, ving and Ouse, Síð, boiling one, voracious one, Sœkin, lone-measuring one, river, calm, want, Ekin, Rennandi.
[3] Ván: so A, von R, Tˣ, ‘vaunn’ C, ‘vo᷎n’ B
[3] Ván (f.): One of the mythical rivers mentioned in Grí 28/8. According to Gylf (SnE 2005, 29), this river flows from the mouth of the wolf Fenrir. The name Ván is undoubtedly the same word as ON ván f. ‘hope’, which, as a river-name, could possibly imply ‘hope for good fishing’ (cf. Norwegian dialects von ‘a place where one expects to find something, such as a fishing place or a hunting ground’; Hale 1983, 180-1). An attempt to connect the river-heiti Ván with the Swedish Lake Vänern was rejected by Hellquist (1970, 1390-1). For discussion of this suggestion, see Hale (1983, 180-1). The name appears in skaldic kennings (see LP: Vôn).