[8] vígskǫrð ‘embrasures’: Lit. ‘battle-openings’. The word is attested in poetry only here. A vígskarð was an opening in the palisades or walls of a fortress through which the defenders could shoot at the enemy (see LP: vígskarð; Fritzner: vígskarð). Finnur’s translation skanser ‘earthworks, fortifications’ (see Note to l. 6 above) is not quite clear.