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[10] Vagnhǫfði: Lit. ‘Whale-head’. From vǫgn f. ‘killer whale, orca’ and hǫfuð n. ‘head’, hence perhaps ‘one with a head like a whale’. In Saxo (Saxo 2005, I, 1, 5, 1, pp. 104-5), Uagnhofthus or Uagnhophtus is the giant who raised Haddingr. In Old Norse sources, the name occurs only here and in Allra flagða þula (see Introduction).

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Saxo 2005 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2005. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum / Danmarkshistorien. Trans. Peter Zeeberg. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Det danske sprog- og litteraturselskab & Gads forlag.

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