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.
[7] bjǫð: þjóð C
[7] bjǫð (n. pl.) ‘flat land’: This term is found only in poetry, and its origin is obscure. It could be a loanword (< OIr. bioth, bith ‘world’). Alternatively, bjǫð has been interpreted as a genuine Germanic word (from *bhedh ‘dig’). For discussion of this word, see AEW: bjǫð and ÍO: bjöð, bjǫð. See also Vsp 4/2 where the sons of Burr are raising what most commentators take to be the surface of the earth from the sea or primeval waters.