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Note to Þul Á 2III

[8] mein (f.) ‘harm’: The heiti appears to be the same word as the f. noun mein ‘harm’, but it is also possible that mein is a geographical name, e.g. Mein Water in Scotland (so CVC 780). Bugge (1875, 221-2) argues that, because this river-name is followed by Saxelfr, the Old Norse name for the Elbe, Mein is the river Main in Germany. The word is not otherwise attested as a heiti for ‘river’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Bugge, Sophus. 1875. ‘Biskop Bjarne Kolbeinssøn og Snorres Edda’. ÅNOH, 209-46.

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