SVALA

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gen. svölu; a v has been dropped, as the proper form would have been svölva (gen. svölu), cp. völva (völu); [A. S. swealwe; Engl. swallow; Germ. schwalbe]:—a swallow, Eg. 420, Edda (Gl.), Karl. 304, Fas. iii. 280; svölu-hreiðr, a swallow’s nest: poët. dólg-svala, a ‘war-swallow,’ i. e. a shaft, Eb. (in a verse): a pr. name of a woman, Band.