Vænir

or Venir, m. Lake Wener, in Sweden, Fas. ii. 4, 6, Hkr. i. 41; á ísi vatns þess er Veni heitir, Edda 82. One is tempted to think that in the verse of Bragi (Edda begin.) the word ‘vineyjar’ may cover this local name; perh. ‘Vaeneris (like mútaris, vartaris, see Gramm. p. xxvii, col. 1, ll. 21–25) víðri valrauf;’ the ‘wide spoil of the Wener’ = the island of Zealand, for the legend can only have applied to Lake Wener, and not to Lake Malar.