vafr-logi

a, m. a ‘waver-lowe,’ flickering flame, a mythical word; an enchanted princess or an enchanted land is surrounded by a ‘waver-lowe,’ Edda (of Brynhild), Skm. 8 (of Skirnir and the giantess Gerda), Fsm. 32 (of Menglöd). In mod. Icel. legends, a kind of ignis fatuus, said to flicker over hidden treasures, is called either málmlogi or vafrlogi, Maurer’s Volks., Ísl. Þjóðs.