Himinglæva

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 skald Einarr Skúlason:

Himinglæva sternly stirreth,

And fiercely, the sea's wailing.

The name means something like "that through which one can see the heaven."

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