Þul Á 3III/2 — Vǫnd ‘Vǫnd’
Tifr, Durn, Vína, Tems, Vǫnd ok Strǫnd,
Mǫrn, móða, þrym, Morn ok Gautelfr,
alin, uðr, Alkoga ok Eufrátes,
ógn, eiðrennir ok Apardjón.
Tifr, Durn, Vína, Tems, Vǫnd ok Strǫnd, Mǫrn, móða, þrym, Morn ok Gautelfr, alin, uðr, Alkoga ok Eufrátes, ógn, eiðrennir ok Apardjón.
Tiber, Durn, Dvina, Thames, Vǫnd and Strǫnd, Marne, loamy stream, noise, Marne and Götaälv, nourished one, wave, Alkoga and Euphrates, terror, isthmus-runner and Aberdeen.
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[2] Vǫnd ok Strǫnd ‘Vǫnd and Strǫnd’: The same pair of names, Vǫnd oc Strǫnd, occurs in Grí 28/9 (NK 63). Vǫnd is most likely a f. form of the adj. vandr ‘difficult’. Hale (1983, 181) proposes that Vǫnd could be related to ON vǫndr m. ‘wand, switch’ (cf. river names with the stem gand- from Norwegian dialects gand ‘thin stick’ and stav- from ON stafr ‘stick, stave’ mentioned in Rygh 1904, 63, 245). If so, Vǫnd could refer to a river that flows in a straight line. The river name Strǫnd f. ‘beach’ is difficult to interpret unless this heiti denotes a river that forms shores or banks when flooding (so Hale 1983, 181). Because Strǫnd is also found in st. 5/7 below, Finnur Jónsson (1933-4, 263 and Skj B, followed by Skald) adopts the A, B variant strind f. ‘river bank’.