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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Á 3III/5 — alin ‘nourished one’

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.

readings

[5] alin: alm C, A

notes

[5] alin (f.) ‘nourished one’: Not otherwise attested as a river-name and probably the f. nom. sg. form of the p. p. of the strong verb ala ‘feed’ (Finnur Jónsson 1933-4, 264: den svulmende ‘the swelling one’). Alternatively, Alin has been identified as the River Alne or Aln in North Yorkshire (CVC 780; Bugge 1875, 220). The C, A variant alm (m. acc. sg. ‘elm’) must be a scribal error.

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