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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Á 1III/7 — ekla ‘want’

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.

readings

[7] ekla: ‘eckla’ C

notes

[7] ekla (f.) ‘want’: As a river-name the word is not found in other sources. Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CVC 780; cf. also Bugge 1875, 221) identifies Ekla as the Oykel, a river in northern Scotland, which is unlikely because that river-name otherwise appears in Old Norse sources as Ekkjall (cf. Arn Þorfdr 9/6II).

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