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Reekwater: from ''The Home of the Eddas: With a chapter on the Sprengisandr'' by Charles George Warnford Lock, 1879, p. 92: "From Hamrar again the way leads through the swampy valley of the Reekwater, crossing and recrossing the sinuous stream more than a dozen times."
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Reekwater: from ''The Home of the Eddas: With a chapter on the Sprengisandr'' by Charles George Warnford Lock, 1879, p. 92: "From Hamrar again the way leads through the swampy valley of the Reekwater, crossing and recrossing the sinuous stream more than a dozen times." Reekwater is Lock's anglicized term for a stream called Reykjadalsá, near the village of Reykholt in Western Iceland.  This is one of the many rivers incorporated into FW.
  
 
waterbeker (Dutch): water beaker or goblet
 
waterbeker (Dutch): water beaker or goblet

Revision as of 20:05, 19 March 2007

Reekwater: from The Home of the Eddas: With a chapter on the Sprengisandr by Charles George Warnford Lock, 1879, p. 92: "From Hamrar again the way leads through the swampy valley of the Reekwater, crossing and recrossing the sinuous stream more than a dozen times." Reekwater is Lock's anglicized term for a stream called Reykjadalsá, near the village of Reykholt in Western Iceland. This is one of the many rivers incorporated into FW.

waterbeker (Dutch): water beaker or goblet