[4] halsstemni (n.) ‘hawse-stem’: Perhaps the name for the inner part of the stem of a ship or the grooved stem (i.e. where the planks were grooved into each other or into the stem, see Falk 1912, 35; SnE 1998, II, 301), from hals m. ‘fore-part of ship, bow’ (see l. 5) and stemni n. (or stefni) ‘stem’ (see Note to hremni ‘fifth plank’ (l. 3)). The term does not otherwise occur in poetry.