[2] gullskati ‘gold-skati’: From gull- ‘gold’ and skati m. ‘towering, lordly man’ (cf. New Norw. skate ‘tree trunk’). The pl. form skatnar ‘men’ is a poetic term used frequently by the skalds. In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 106), the heiti is given among other terms for ‘generous man’, most of which are also listed either in this stanza (in the pl. form sælkerar ‘affluent ones’, l. 4, auðkýfingar ‘money-bags’, l. 5, hǫfðingjar ‘chieftains’ l. 8) or in the previous stanza (mildingr, mæringr, mannbaldr ‘munificent one, illustrious one, prince of men’, st. 3/7-8).