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[1] ríkr ‘mighty’: This adj. could have been chosen consciously as a reference to Knútr inn ríki ‘the Mighty’ Sveinsson (Cnut the Great, d. 1035), thus eulogising Knútr by establishing a tie to his famous relative and namesake.