[9] fjǫrr ok brjónar ‘being and brjónar’: This defective line is added to the stanza in several mss (R, Tˣ, C). Both heiti are found only in this þula. The first is probably derived from fjǫr n. ‘life’ (hence lit. ‘being’; see Kock, NN §696), although Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 274) argues that fjǫrr m. may be a name of a tree (‘fir(?)’) and thus a half-kenning. The etymology of the second heiti, brjónar, is obscure. It has been suggested that the word may be related to the weak verb brjá ‘glitter’ and has the meaning ‘splendid’, but de Vries finds that unlikely (see the discussions in AEW: brjónar and ÍO: brjónar).