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[6] borði (m.) ‘boarded one’: A poetic term for ‘shield’ from borð n. ‘board, plank’, hence ‘one made of boards’ (cf. OE bord ‘plank’ and ‘shield’; see Falk 1914b, 131 n. 3; SnE 1998, II, 248).