V. GLOSSARY.
Ólafur Pálsson translation
The following Explanatory List of Geographical Terms will assist the memory, aid the pronunciation, and, it is believed, prove of interest and practical utility.[55]
á or aa, river.
bakki, hill.
beru, bare.
beru-fjördr, bare frith.
blá, blue.
bœr, farm.
bol, or bol-stadr, main farm, or steading (bu or boo, in Orkney).
brekka, brink of a precipice.
brú, bridge.
dalr, valley.
eingi, or hagi, meadow, or field.
ey (eyjar, genitive singular; eyja, genitive plural), an island
eyri, sand, sand-bank or bar (ere, in north of England)
fell, same as fjall.
ferjur, ferries.
fjall, (plural fjöll), fell, or height; as Blá-fjall, blue fell, or, in English, Scawfell, &c.
fjördr, frith.
fljót, a river (fleet)
fors, force, or waterfall.
hals, ridge, or col.
hædir, heights.
heidi, heath.
hof, or hofdi, head, or headland.
holl, hill.
holt, wood.
hraun, lava.
hreppr, a rape (whence divisions of land, and “rapes” of Sussex).
hvamm, a combe, or recess surrounded by hills; as Ilfra-combe.
hvit, white (hence hvit-á, white river.)
jökull, ice mountain.
jökuls-á, is the name given to many rivers, and means only ice river; but it is usually associated with another name, such as Axa-firdi Jökuls-á, or ice river of the Axa frith.
kirk, church.
kverk, chin (hence Kverk-fjöll, Chinfell).
lid, lithe, provincial for a sloping bank (whence Reykja-lid, the smoking bank).
lœkr, brook, stream.
muli, mull, or cliff; thing-muli, the heights, or cliffs, under which an assembly was held.
myri, morass.
ness, headland.
nupr, bluff, or inland cliff.
orœfi, wastes.
rafn, raven.
reyk, smoke.
sandr, sands.
skard, pass, defile.
skógr, underwood.
stadr, stede, stead, or sted; as Hampstead.
strönd, strand.
sysla, or syssel, district.
thing, meeting.
vatn (plural, vötn), lake.
vellir, plain.
vik, vikr, bay; Grunda-vik, green bay; Greenwich = Green-vik.
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