f., dat. reinu, e. g. mark-reinu, kaup-reinu, Gþl. 460, 485; sef-reinu, Lex. Poët.; pl. reinar; [Scot. rins]:—a strip of land, freq. in mod. usage; mark-rein, skógar-rein (q. v.), a strip of woodland; kaup-rein, a market-place: poët., ragna rein, the heavenly strip, i. e. the rainbow. Hd.; geð-rein, the mind’s strip, i. e. the breast; svana flug-rein, swan’s pinion-strip, i. e. the sky, Harms. 44: in circumlocutions, baug-rein, rein steina, = a woman, Lex. Poët.