[2] harðráðr ‘hard-ruling’: Haraldr’s nickname was harðráði ‘Hard-rule’, i.e. ‘one who makes decisive judgements and follows them through’ (see Finnur Jónsson 1907, 252; LP: harðráðr). The nickname does not appear in early prose, but it is found in the heading of ch. 25 of Theodoricus’s history of the Norwegian kings (MHN 50, ‘Hardrad’r’, ‘Hardradr’). It is not clear whether we are dealing with the nickname or an adjectival epithet in the present stanza.