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[6] ríkisvendir ‘royal sceptres’: Otherwise unattested in a figurative meaning. Ríklundaðir ‘great-minded’ (so F) is metrically and syntactically possible (qualifying jarlar ‘earls’) and has been adopted by Skj B and Skald, but that adj. appears to be a lectio facilior.