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[3] merki (n.) ‘mark’: Perhaps a smith’s signature on a sword-blade, a decoration or an inscription (see Falk 1914b, 33; cf. also SnE 1998, II, 355). The word is not otherwise attested in poetry as a heiti for ‘sword’.