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Þul Á 2III/4 — hǫllfara ‘sloping-goer’

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

[4] dyn hǫllfara (‘dynholl fara’): dyn hǫll fara , A, ‘dun haullfara’ C, ‘dýnho᷎ll fara’ B

notes

[4] hǫllfara (f.) ‘sloping-goer’: In this form (which is also adopted in Skj B, Skald and SnE 1998), the name is found only in ms. C. The cpd is spelled as two separate words in all other mss, and it could be that these were two distinct heiti rather than one, i.e. the adj. hǫll f. ‘sloping’ and fara ‘goer, traveller’. Hǫll (from the adj. hallr ‘sloping’) is listed among the names of mythical rivers in Grí 27/10. Hǫllfara is not attested elsewhere as a heiti for ‘river’.

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