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[3] valnir (m.) ‘chosen one’: The word is most likely related to val n. ‘choice’ and the weak verb velja ‘choose’, and may be derived from valinn (p. p. of velja; so Falk 1914b, 62; cf. also ‘chooser’, ‘choice’, SnE 1998, II, 420).