[All]: Of the river-names listed in this stanza, only Leira ‘the Loire’ (l. 4) occurs in skaldic verse. The names Níl ‘the Nile’ (l. 1) and Ganges ‘the Ganges’ (l. 2) could have been taken from some learned source (e.g. Heimslýsing in Hb 1892-6, 150 and Landafræði in AÍ I, 6).