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[2] Sǫrli: Unidentified hero (not the brother of Hamðir, cf. Bragi Rdr 5/5). Christiansen (1931, 413-16) suggests Seurlus, son of the king of Bergen in a Gaelic ballad, whose heart and ribs broke when he swam out to sea after his mermaid-lover.