Þul Jarðar 1III/5 — Fíf ‘Fife’
Jǫrð, fjǫrn, rofa, eskja ok Hlóðyn,
gyma, Sif, Fjǫrgyn, grund, hauðr ok rǫnd,
fold, vangr ok Fíf, frón, hjarl ok barmr,
land, bjǫð, þruma, láð ok merski.
Jǫrð, fjǫrn, rofa, eskja ok Hlóðyn, gyma, Sif, Fjǫrgyn, grund, hauðr ok rǫnd, fold, vangr ok Fíf, frón, hjarl ok barmr, land, bjǫð, þruma, láð ok merski.
Earth, landscape, furrow, one grown with ash trees and Hlóðyn, one populated with men, Sif, Fjǫrgyn, ground, surface and rim, field, meadow and Fife, country, loam and coast, land, flat land, slope, territory and marsh.
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[5] Fíf ‘Fife’: So mss A and B, omitted in Tˣ, C and given as Sif in R (see l. 3 above). Either a hap. leg. or, more likely (and adopted here), the same as Fíf, i.e. Fife in Scotland (cf. Sigv Lv 12/3I and Orkn ch. 20, ÍF 34, 51; see also LP: Fíf and SnE 1998, I, 457).