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[3] skjǫldungr ‘lord’: Another heiti for ‘ruler’. Explained by Snorri as a descendant of Skjǫldr (SnE 1998, I, 103). It may originally have had the meaning ‘shield-bearer’ (see Faulkes, SnE 1998, II, 393 and Note to Þul Konunga 3/3).