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.
[8] Fimbulþul (f.): Lit. ‘mighty mumbler’ (so Faulkes 1987, 161). A mythical river (Grí 27/4; Gylf, SnE 2005, 9, 33) whose first element is fimbul- ‘mighty, great’. The second element is related to the weak verb þylja ‘chant, murmur’ (cf. þula). The m. form, fimbulþulr, refers to Óðinn in Hávm 80/5, 142/5.