Sælund
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better Selund (q. v.), rhymed Silunz kilir, Ó. H. (in a verse), f.; the gender varies between fem. and neut., gen. Selundar, Hkr. i. 132; but Selundz, Fms. i. 27, l. c.; Selund, Skáney, Gautland, x. 381; heima á Selund, ríkit á Selund, 366; af Selundi, 371:—the old name of Zealand; þar setti Gefjun landit ok gaf nafn ok kallaði Selund, Edda 1, Fms., Fas., Lex. Poët.; svals Silunz, Ó. H. (in a verse of A. D. 1027): dat. Selundi, Fms. i. 115, but Selund, v. l.; af Selundi, x. 371. The word is said to be derived not from Sæ-lund (i. e. Sea-grove), but from the root sal-, the und being inflexive, cp. ‘Insula Oceani,’ Tacit. Germ. ch. 40, which is not improbably a kind of translation of Selund, cp. Prof. Munch’s remarks on this name.