[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’.