Note 73 — Chapter V · MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY—continued.
Reading edition
The word Gullveig is only found as a compound word this once in the literature of the North. Gull = gold; veig = draught, also strength. It may be a metaphor for the thirst of gold being the root of evil, and the cause of the first fight and manslaying in the world, as the thirst is never dying.