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Rh and suggests such a word. It may be *søyglingr or soglingr (from suga,, to suck, søygja, , to give suck, sogbarn, suckling), formed in  with the ending “ling” in accordance with suckling,

As the words in the first line have been disturbed by addition of “vallilu”, and as it is doubtful whether [ega] is in its proper place before, it would probably be vain to attempt an interpretation of this word, which has various meanings.

The second line is easier to interpret, and was originally: so blithe and gay in the morning, waving your arms about? (or possibly: making vigorous mouthing efforts to take the nipple).
 * leikar þú svá frór (frár) um morguninn geiplandi, are you playing

The k-sound in (and also the  ) favour the probability of a derivation from, , to play, rather than from liggja,, to lie. may be *frór,  frár and frór, , hale; vigorous; lively, or a later imported *frór = fróur,  fro ( froh),, gay. a mōrnin: Scoto-English form (“in the morning”).

doubtless for *, from a *,, which is geipla, , to make wild gestures with the arms, esp.esp. [sic] having an implement in the hand (= geipa, R.), “geipla” can also mean: to make great lip-movements, but this meaning does not suit the rhyme so well, if is the verb leika, to play, because the child is fairly quiet when sucking. In view of the double meaning of the lying so joyously in the morning, mouthing for the nipple? But as agrees better phonetically with “leika” than with “liggja”, the former interpretation is more probable.
 * geipla, the following interpretation is conceivable: Are you

The Troll’s Message. A fairy-verse connected with an old legend about a man riding past a mound, who hears some words shouted to him from the interior:

Foula versions.

ri̇̄a ri̇̄a ræn(na) sina dɩvla døna vɩvla kɔpəra jadla hɔᶇdəna bradna.

sēana dɩvla dø$ə$na vɩvla kɔpərə kētəl hɔᶇdə bredən.