[5] Dagfinnr: This is a common pers. n., but as a dwarf-name it is recorded only in this þula. The name may be translated either as ‘day-finder’ (cf. dagr m. ‘day’ and the strong verb finna ‘find’) or as ‘day-magician’ with the second element finnr ‘Saami’ i.e. ‘magician’ (so Gould 1929, 943).