Enn heitir svá ylgr: vargynja,
borkn ok íma, svimul.
Enn heitir ylgr svá: vargynja, borkn ok íma, svimul.
Moreover a she-wolf is called this: she-wolf, boaster and dusky one, svimul.
[4] svimul: ok svimul C, ‘sím[…]’ B, ‘símul’ 744ˣ
[4] svimul (f.): The word is a hap. leg. whose meaning is uncertain, and different explanations have been suggested (see AEW: svimul; ÍO: svimul; Olsen 1942b, 8). It could perhaps be connected with svími m. ‘faintness’, ModNorw. svimle ‘reel, feel dizzy’ and svimmel ‘dizzy, confused’ (hence, ‘staggering one’). Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 409) provides ‘roamer’.