[3] fljóð (f.) ‘matron’: Perhaps lit. ‘quick one’ (see AEW: fljóð). In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 107), this word is explained as follows: Víf ok brúðr ok fljóð heita þær konur er manni eru gefnar ‘Those women who are given to a husband are called víf and brúðr and fljóð’. The word is used only in poetry.