Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Á heiti 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 847.
Gilling ok Níl, Ganges, Tvedda,
Luma, vervaða, Leira ok Gunnþró,
Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn, yn, Þjóðnuma,
Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok Spé ok Fimbulþul.
Gilling ok Níl, Ganges, Tvedda, Luma, vervaða, Leira ok Gunnþró, Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn, yn, Þjóðnuma, Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok Spé ok Fimbulþul.
‘Gilling and Nile, Ganges, Tweed, Luma, one waded by men, Loire and Gunnþró, Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn, yn, Þjóðnuma, Fjǫrm, Strǫnd and Spey and Fimbulþul. ’
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).
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Gilling ok Níl,
Ganges, Tvedda,
Luma, vervaða,
Leira ok Gunnþró,
Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn,
yn, Þjóðnuma,
Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok Spé
ok Fimbulþyl.
Gilling ok nil ganges tvedda lvma | vervaþa leira ok gvɴþro . viðsvol vegsviɴ yn þioðnvma fiorm strond | ok spe ok fimbvl þyl.
(VEÞ)
Gilling ok Níl,
Ganges, Tvedda,
Luma, vervaða,
Leira Gunnþró,
Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn,
yn, Þjóðnuma,
†fiorn†, Strǫnd ok Spé
Fimbulþul.
Gilling ok Níl,
Ganges, Tvedda,
Luma, vervaða,
Leira ok Gunn†-þor†,
Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn,
ynn, Þjóðnuma,
forn, Strǫnd Spé
ok Fimbulþul.
Gilling nilus,
Ganges, Tvedda,
Luma, ver†vóða†,
Leira ok Gunnþró,
ið svǫl, , Vegsvinn,
yn, Þjóðnuma,
Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok Spé
ok Fimbulþul.
Gilling nilvs ganges tvędda lv́ma ver vóða | læira ok gvnnþró ið svø̨l vægsvinn yn þioðnvma fiø̨rm strø̨nd ok spæ ok | fimbvlþvl .
(VEÞ)
†[…]ng […] […]†,
†ga[…]†, †tedda†,
Luma, ver†-veda†,
Leira †[…]† Gunn†[…]†,
†[…] suo᷎l†, , †vegs[…]†,
yn, Þjóð-muna,
Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok †sp[…]†
ok Fimbulþul.
[...]ng[...]ga[...] tedda luma | verveda leíra [...] gunn[...] suo᷎l vegs[...]ýn þíodmuna . fío᷎rm stro᷎nnd ok sp[...] ok fimbulþul . |
(VEÞ)
†Gilling† †nilus†,
†ganges†, Tvedda,
Luma, vervaða,
Leira ok Gunn†-þro†,
†id suo᷎l†, , †vegsýn†,
yn, Þjóðnuma,
Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok †spe†
ok Fimbulþul.
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