eyjar

I am admiring islands on the map. I see now Java and Borneo, two Aleuts, Newfoundland, Ireland, one of the Faroes (might it be more?), Hokkaido, Sri Lanka. Could that be Lofoten? The Canaries? I wish I knew what island that was west of Chile.

I see the North and South Islands and I think of old Zealand, pulled from Sweden with four monstrous oxen. As Bragi the Old had it:

Gefjun dró frá Gylfa
glöð djúpröðul óðla,
svá at af rennirauknum
rauk, Danmarkar auka.
Báru öxn ok átta
ennitungl, þars gengu
fyrir vineyjar víðri
valrauf, fjögur höfuð.

But how did the antipodal Zealands get there? What did they yoke up to pull them and from where?