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[1] Hrøkkvir: A hap. leg. from the strong verb hrøkkva ‘drive back, beat, whip’; hence the meaning of this name is ‘one who beats’ or the like, although Motz (1984, 182) connects it with hrøkkva in the sense ‘wriggle like a snake’.