[3] sveigr (m.) ‘bending one’: The word is probably derived from a strong verb *svíga ‘bend’ (cf. ModSwed. dialects swīga ‘bend, give way’). See also the weak verb sveigja ‘bend’ and sveigr m. ‘twig, switch’. As a heiti for ‘bow’, the word is not found elsewhere in skaldic poetry, but it is attested in the later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: sveigr).