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[6] landreki (m.) ‘land-ruler’: This is an agent-noun from the weak verb rekja ‘straighten out’ rather than from the strong verb reka ‘drive’ (so SnE 1998, I, 220; AEW: reki; Note to st. 1/4 above). Cf. OE gerec ‘rule’.