Gjǫll, glit, gera, glóð ok valskjalf,
Ván, Víð, Vimur, ving ok Ýsa,
Síð, suðr, freka, Sœkin, einstika,
elfr, ró, ekla, Ekin, Rennandi.
Gjǫll, glit, gera, glóð ok valskjalf, Ván, Víð, Vimur, ving ok Ýsa, Síð, suðr, freka, Sœkin, einstika, elfr, ró, ekla, Ekin, Rennandi.
Gjǫll, shining, greedy one, glowing and valskjálf, Ván, Víð, Vimur, ving and Ouse, Síð, boiling one, voracious one, Sœkin, lone-measuring one, river, calm, want, Ekin, Rennandi.
[3] Vimur: vimr Tˣ
[3] Vimur (f.): A river on the border between the worlds of the gods and the giants that Þórr forded on his way to the giant Geirrøðr (Skm, SnE 1998, I, 17, 25; see also ÚlfrU Húsdr 6/5 and Eil Þdr). The name may be connected with ModIcel. vimur ‘indecision’ (see ÍO: Vimur 2). Cf. marr Vimrar ‘the horse of Vimur <river> [SHIP]’ in Þul Waves l. 4 and the river-name Geirvimul in Grí 27/7 (see st. 6/6 below).