Mehena
A slow northern river whose name is simply the old word for its own nature: gentle, placid, unhurried. The Mehena drains the quiet country east of the Wormflow Place Wormflow The braided river of the northern lowlands, a slow silver tangle that splits, wanders, rejoins, and forgets itself across a plain of reeds. braid and takes its time about it.
Kännetecken
- An old-tongue name that never drifted: mehe is "slow-moving" in the old registers, and the Mehena is exactly that.
- Deep enough for barges in its lower run, and calm enough that they need no courage.
- Its banks are grazing country, low and mild, the softest land in the hard north.