I repeat my message - first try failed, the post disappeared.

"llama_nom" wrote:

> The name is generally believed to refer to the Carpathian Mountains.
> 'Harvaða' is thought to derive from a form of the name inherited
> from Proto-Germanic [...]

Before establishing an etymology of this word it is not superfluous to
specify its form: various printed editions and MSS have rather vage
spelling: Hærvaða and even Hávaða.