[7] hrafnbláir ‘raven-black’: Hamðir and Sǫrli were linked in Old Norse legend with the Niflungar, traditionally supposed to have been dark in colour (cf. ON nifl- ‘mist, darkness’ (only in compounds like Niflhel, part of the underworld), OHG nebul, OE nifol, Lat. nebula ‘fog, mist, cloud’).