Gilling ok Níl, Ganges, Tvedda,
Luma, vervaða, Leira ok Gunnþró,
Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn, yn, Þjóðnuma,
Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok Spé ok Fimbulþul.
Gilling ok Níl, Ganges, Tvedda, Luma, vervaða, Leira ok Gunnþró, Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn, yn, Þjóðnuma, Fjǫrm, Strǫnd ok Spé ok Fimbulþul.
Gilling and Nile, Ganges, Tweed, Luma, one waded by men, Loire and Gunnþró, Víð, Svǫl, Vegsvinn, yn, Þjóðnuma, Fjǫrm, Strǫnd and Spey and Fimbulþul.
[5] Vegsvinn: ‘vegs[…]’ B, ‘vegsýn’ 744ˣ
[5] Vegsvinn (f.): The name of a mythical river (Grí 28/2), treated as two separate names, Veg and Svinn, in Gylf (SnE 2005, 33; see also Note to Þjóðnuma in l. 6). The meaning of this heiti is either ‘way-swift one’ (cf. Hale 1983, 176: ‘one which flows rapidly in its course’) or ‘way-clever one’ (Finnur Jónsson 1933-4, 263).