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[1] rúni Sifjar ‘the confidant of Sif <goddess> [= Þórr]’: Sif was Þórr’s wife in Old Norse myth (SnE 2005, 26). The kenning-type ‘friend/confidant of a goddess’ was not uncommon in poetry with mythological referents (cf. Meissner252-3, 255).