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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Á 4III/8 — gnapa ‘leaning one’

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

[8] gnapa: ‘g[…]apa’ B, gnapa 744ˣ

notes

[8] gnapa (f.) ‘leaning one’: A hap. leg. related to the weak verb gnapa ‘lean, droop’. According to Finnur Jónsson (1933-4, 266), the term might denote a high waterfall. Like some other river-names in this list, the heiti has a parallel among the heiti for ‘sea’, i.e. gnap ‘towering one’ (Þul Sjóvar 1/5).

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