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.
[8] mein: ‘[…]in’ B, ‘mein’ 744ˣ
[8] mein (f.) ‘harm’: The heiti appears to be the same word as the f. noun mein ‘harm’, but it is also possible that mein is a geographical name, e.g. Mein Water in Scotland (so CVC 780). Bugge (1875, 221-2) argues that, because this river-name is followed by Saxelfr, the Old Norse name for the Elbe, Mein is the river Main in Germany. The word is not otherwise attested as a heiti for ‘river’.