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Þul Á 4III/3 — hjalmunlá ‘rudder-wave’

Rǫgn, Hrǫnn ok raun,         Raumelfr, hnipul,
hnǫpul, hjalmunlá,         Humra, Vína,
Víl, Vín, vella,         valin, semð, salin,
Nepr, Drǫfn, strauma,         Nis, mynt, gnapa.

Rǫgn, Hrǫnn ok raun, Raumelfr, hnipul, hnǫpul, hjalmunlá, Humra, Vína, Víl, Vín, vella, valin, semð, salin, Nepr, Drǫfn, strauma, Nis, mynt, gnapa.

Rǫgn, Hrǫnn and ordeal, Glomma, seizer, grasper, rudder-wave, Humber, Dvina, Víl, Vín, boiling one, chosen one, calm, salin, Dnieper, Drammenselva, torrent, Nissan, mouthed one, leaning one.

readings

[3] hjalmunlá: hjalmrá , hjǫlmunlá A, ‘hialmun […]’ B, ‘hialmunla744ˣ

notes

[3] hjalmunlá (f.) ‘rudder-wave’: Or hjǫlmunlá. As a river-name, the word is difficult to interpret, although the meaning of the two elements of the cpd is clear: hjǫlm ‘rudder’ and ‘the line of shoal water along the shore’ (cf. in Þul Sjóvar 4/2), hence ‘rudder-wave’. According to Bugge (1875, 223), Hjalmunlá is the Hjálmundalsá mentioned in Orkn (ch. 78, ÍF 34, 177), now the River Helmsdale in Sutherland, Scotland.

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