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[1] viðfiska ‘wood fish [SNAKES]’: Hap. leg. but a cpd conforming to a typical pattern of snake-kennings (Meissner112-14); cf. myrkaurriða markar ‘the dark trout of the forest’, Ill Har 1/3II, where the reference is to Sigurðr’s killing of Fáfnir.