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[4] skyli (m.) ‘protector’: A poetic term for ‘ruler’ and also the name of a son of Hálfdan gamli, cf. Skm (SnE 1998, I, 101): Skyli eða Skúli ‘Skyli or Skúli’. See Introduction and Note and l. 2 (sjóli) above.