[8] frǫskr ‘a frog’: (O)Icel. froskr ‘frog’. The word is attested in poetry only here. On Orcadian-Norw. dialectal frǫskr, see LH II, 47-8; on braying frogs in medieval European literature, see Ransom (1986, 69-83). The rhyme of the noble rǫskr ‘brave’, adj. of champions, with homely frǫskr seems comic. On Lat. rana ‘frog’ named from the noise (cf. rancare) it makes in its native paludes ‘swamps’, see Isidore, Etym. 12.6.58.