[1] emjar ‘howls’: A hap. leg. The word is either f. pl. (-ar) or possibly m. sg. (-arr), an agent noun derived from the weak verb emja ‘howl’ (see Falk 1914b, 49). Although the word is listed among names for parts of the sword, it must be rather a sword-heiti invented according to a semantic pattern (‘noise-maker’) widely used in the þulur (cf. such similar names for sword as gellir ‘yeller’ and gjallr ‘clamouring one’ (st. 1/5-6), galmr ‘clanging one’ (st. 2/5), gelmingr ‘clamourer’ (st. 12/1).