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[7] búlda (f.) ‘bulging one’: In Old Norse this name does not occur elsewhere, but cf. ModIcel. Búlda, the name of a sheep (‘with a large head’, Falk 1914b, 115) and búldinn m. ‘chubby’. Hence the heiti refers to the shape of the blade.