We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing
experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used.
You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on
the cookies page.
[8]: Hríð- : skíð- form aðalhending rather than skothending, and Konráð Gíslason (1895-7) suggested the reading stóðum ‘stud-horses’ (svǫrtum stóðum hlunna ‘the black stud-horses of the rollers,’ i.e. ‘the black ships’; adopted in Skj B and Skald).