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[5] sykvinn ... máli ‘cheated ... of speech’: The p. p. is from svíkja ‘to cheat’. The notion of the joyless lover occurs frequently in mansǫngr (Bjarni Einarsson 1961, 23-37) but that he is silenced is less common.