[1] svanni (m.) ‘lady’: Lit. ‘clever one’; from the adj. svinnr ‘wise, clever’ (AEW: svanni). This is a poetic term for ‘gentlewoman’; cf. Skm (SnE 1998, I, 107): Sprund ok svanni heita þær konur er mjǫk fara með dramb ok skart ‘Those women who go around with pomp and finery are called sprund and svanni’.