[4] hǫguðr (m.) ‘useful one’: An agent noun from the weak verb haga ‘manage, succeed’; cf. hagna ‘be suitable, succeed’ and Hǫgnuðr, the name of a magic wand (stafsproti) in Vatnsdæla saga (ch. 44, ÍF 8, 120 and n. 2; see also Falk 1914b, 53). The B variant, hǫgguðr lit. ‘killer, striker’ (so also the LaufE mss), suggests a connection with hǫgg n. ‘stroke, blow’ and the strong verb hǫggva ‘strike, behead’. Hǫguðr is not attested elsewhere as a heiti for ‘sword’, and neither is the B variant hǫgguðr.