Note to Eil Þdr 7III
[8] steðja Feðju ‘the anvil of Fedje <river> [STONE]’: Fedje is a river in south-west Norway (cf. Olsen 1907, 94-5). Clunies Ross (1981, 375) regards steðja Feðju as ‘a kenning for Vimur’s vulva, against which in the aggressive confrontation of male and female powers, Þórr and Þjálfi place their “noise-files” (hlymþél) or staves, which clang against the river’s stony bed’. However, this is somewhat inconsistent with the second part of the helmingr, which describes fellihryn fjalla ‘the toppling-noise of the mountains’ (l. 7), i.e. the river, roaring against the ‘anvil of Fedje <river> [ROCK]’ and not against the spear (hlymþél ‘din-file’, l. 6).