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.
[5] freka: ‘[…]’ B, ‘fṛẹ . . .’ 744ˣ
[5] freka (f.) ‘voracious one’: As a heiti for ‘river’ the word is not found in other sources. See also Freki m., lit. ‘greedy one’ (Þul Vargs 1/5 and Note there). Freki was one of Óðinn’s wolves in Old Norse myth (see Note to gera ‘greedy one’ in l. 1 above).