Bylgja

"To billow", "Big wave." A billow maiden, one of the nine daughters of the sea god Ægir and his wife Rán. She is attested in Skáldskaparmál, which quotes a stanza by the Icelandic skald Óttarr svarti:

Ye shear with shaven rudder

Billows moisty-deep; the broad sheet,

Which girls spun, on the mast-head

With the Roller's Reindeer sported.

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