Þul Á 2III/2 — Þǫll ‘Þǫll’
Þyn, Rín ok Nið, Þǫll, rimr, ysja
Dún, ógn, Dýna, dyn, hǫllfara,
órun ok bró, auðskjalg, Lodda,
mun, merkriða, mein ok Saxelfr.
Þyn, Rín ok Nið, Þǫll, rimr, ysja, Dún, ógn, Dýna, dyn, hǫllfara, órun ok bró, auðskjalg, Lodda, mun, merkriða, mein ok Saxelfr.
Þyn, Rhine and Nidelven, Þǫll, rimr, hastener, Danube, terror, Dvina, noise, sloping-goer, furious one and bró, auðskjálg, Lodda, one moving forward, boundary-crosser, harm and Elbe.
readings
[2] Þǫll: ‘[…]’ B, ‘þọḷl’ 744ˣ
notes
[2] Þǫll (f.): The meaning and derivation of this river-name is uncertain (see AEW: þǫll 2; S-G I, 198; ÍO: Þöll, Þǫll). According to CVC 780, Þǫll is the river Thuil in Scotland. Alternatively, this river has been identified as the New Norw. Tollåga, a river in Beiarn, northern Norway (Rygh 1904, 272). The name, whose form is identical to þǫll f. ‘fir’, is also known from Grí, where the same alliterating river-names occur in st. 27/9-10 (NK 62) (Þyn oc Vin, | Þǫll oc Hǫll), and Gylf (SnE 2005, 33), and Þǫll is also used as a river-name in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: þǫll).