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.
[4] Ýsa: ‘ysa’ or ‘vsa’ A, ‘[…]’ B, ýsa 744ˣ
[4] Ýsa (f.) ‘Ouse’: Most likely Úsa ‘the Ouse’, the name of more than one English river (AEW: ýsa 2). The three instances in skaldic poetry (Úsa in Ótt Knútdr 5/7I, Arn Hardr 7/3II and Steinn Óldr 2/1II) appear to refer to the Yorkshire Ouse, and that may be what is meant here.