ölrún

Merkingar

f. a myth, word, cp. Germ. alruna, i. e. mandragora or mandrake, for which see Grimm’s Mythol.

1. II.

   a pr. name of the swan maiden in Vkv., where, however, the name may be Gaelic, from eala = a swan (Mr. Baring Gould’s Curious Myths, 2nd Series, No. ix).