[3] Luma (f.): The name is also recorded in the list of river-heiti added in a later hand in the lower margin of U(11r) (see SnE 1848-87, II, 277 n.; U 1962-77, II, 124). According to Rygh (1904, 149), this must be the name of a Norwegian river (cf. such place names as Lomeland, Lomnes and New Norw. lum ‘warm, mild’; see ÍO: Luma 4). Bugge (1875, 223-4) searches for possible modern English or Scottish equivalents, e.g. the Lunan River in Scotland and the Lune in Cumbria and Lancashire. The latter is unlikely, judging from the early spellings of Lune (Ekwall 1928, 270).
References
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- U 1962-77 = Grape, Anders et al., eds. 1962-77. Snorre Sturlasons Edda: Uppsala-handskriften DG 11. 2 vols. Stockholm and Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell.
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