[2] skelkinn ‘fond of mockery’: This word is interpreted by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) as meaning spottelysten ‘given to mockery, malicious’ (cf. the verb skelkja ‘mock’ and the noun skelkr ‘mockery’). LP: 2. skelkinn, 2. skelkja, 2. skelkr suggests that both the adj. skelkinn and the verb skelkja are related to the noun skálkr ‘servant, rogue’. There are homonyms to most of these words: LP: 1. skelkinn ‘fearful’, 1. skelkja ‘frighten’, 1. skelkr ‘fright, fear’. Both skelkinn ‘fearful’ and skelkinn ‘given to mockery’ apparently occur only once each (LP: 1.-2. skelkinn); the sense ‘mocking’ makes better sense in this stanza than the sense ‘fearful’.