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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Á 5III

[5] Víð, Svǫl: Lit. ‘wide one, cold one’ (both f. nom. sg.). So , C (spelled as a cpd in R). Both Víð and Svǫl are names of mythical rivers (Grí 27/1, 3 and SnE 2005, 9, 33; see also Víð in st. 1/3 above). Skj B (and Skald) adopts the A, 744ˣ variant ið svǫl ‘repeated cool one’, which may be interpreted as ‘very cold one’. Finnur Jónsson (1933-4, 268) has Víð, Svǫl, and Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 518) gives Viðsvǫl or Víðsvǫl.

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