Þul Jarðar 2^III

Holt, hals ok fjǫll,         hlíð ok leiti,
hóll, heiðr ok hvilpt,         hváll ok brekka,
hró, dalr ok vǫllr,         hvammr ok tunga,
mold, flag, rimi,         mór, laut ok sandr.

Holt, hals ok fjǫll, hlíð ok leiti, hóll, heiðr ok hvilpt, hváll ok brekka, hró, dalr ok vǫllr, hvammr ok tunga, mold, flag, rimi, mór, laut ok sandr.

Grove, ridge and mountains, hillside and rise, knoll, heath and hollow, hillock and slope, mound, dale and field, coomb and tongue, mould, plain, low ridge, moor, depression and sand.

Mss: R(44r), Tˣ(46r), C(13r), A(19v), B(9r) (SnE)

Readings: [1] ok: om. Tˣ    [2] ok: om. Tˣ    [3] hóll: so A, hǫll R, holl Tˣ, C, B;    heiðr: heill A;    ok: om. Tˣ, C, B;    hvilpt: ‘huilmt’ B    [4] ok: om. Tˣ    [5] hró: ‘hrof’ C, ‘bro‑’ A;    ok: om. Tˣ;    vǫllr: ‘dæl’ C    [6] ok: om. Tˣ    [8] ok: om. Tˣ

Editions: Skj AI, 674-5, Skj BI, 669, Skald I, 334, SnE 1848-87, I, 586, II, 482, 566, 625, SnE 1931, 209, SnE 1998, I, 130.     

Notes: [All]: Some of the heiti for ‘earth’ listed in this stanza do not otherwise occur in poetry: hals m. ‘hill, ridge’ (l. 1), hvilpt f. ‘hollow’ (l. 3), hváll m. ‘hillock’ (l. 4), hró f. ‘mound’ (l. 5), hvammr m. ‘coomb’ (l. 6), tunga f. ‘tongue’ (l. 6), flag n. ‘plain’ (l. 7), rimi m. ‘low ridge’ (l. 7). — [5] hró (f.) ‘mound’: In Old Norse, this heiti is not found elsewhere, but cf. ModIcel. hró(n) ‘a small plot of dry land above water’. The word is possibly related to hrúga f. ‘heap’ (Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon 1950, 121; ÍO: hró 1). Alternatively, it may be connected with hrúðr m. ‘crust, scab’ (cf. Lat. crēscō ‘grow’; AEW: hró). — [7] flag (n.) ‘plain’: Or ‘turfless ground’ (so SnE 1998, II, 275). See AEW: flag.

References

1. Bibliography
2. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
5. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
6. SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
7. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
8. Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1950. Review of Ferdinand Holthausen. 1948. Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. ANF 65, 116-30.