[5] Víl: Or Vil (the length of the vowel ([i] or [i:]) cannot be determined). One of the two mythical rivers that flow from the mouth of the wolf Fenrir (see SnE 1848-87, II, 432, 515). The name is not known from other sources. It could be the same word as víl n. ‘misery, wretchedness’ (so AEW: víl 1). Cf. such semantically similar heiti in the present list as nauð ‘need’ (st. 6/1), ekla ‘want’ (st. 1/7), mein ‘harm’ (st. 2/8), raun ‘ordeal’ (l. 1 above), none of which occurs elsewhere as heiti for ‘river’. If the vowel is short, it could be derived from vil f./n.‘wilfulness’. Finnur Jónsson (1933-4, 268) suggests den gode ‘the good one’, which most likely implies ‘good for fishing’ (cf. Nyt lit. ‘profit’ in st. 6/1 below and Ván ‘hope’ in st. 1/3 above).