[3] aurgreppa ‘of the mud-men’: The cpd ǫrgreppa adopted by Kock (see Note above) is unacceptable because ǫr- ‘bold, intense’ in compounds is, in most cases, affixed to agent nouns, to participles or to deverbal adjectives to qualify the action (cf. also Kuhn 1936b, 149-50). Greppr ‘man’ belongs to none of these categories. The metre (Type E3) tends to favour a cpd in metrical positions 1-3 and aurgreppa ‘of the mud-men’ has been adopted here (the mss have ‘avr’ (R, W, U) and ‘aur’ (Tˣ)) because aur- is a common element in giants’ names (LP: Aurboða, Aurgelmir, Aurgrímnir, Aurnir). Aur- does not, however, function as a determinant in this giant-kenning; that role falls to fentanna ‘of fen-teeth [ROCKS]’ (l. 2).