Note to Þul Skipa 1III
[3] árakló (f.) ‘oar-claw’: An otherwise unattested cpd from ár f. ‘oar’ and kló f. ‘claw’ (cf. klœr pl. ‘claws’ among Heiti á skipi in st. 9/6 and Note there). It is likely that the word denotes a kind of rowlock and, if so, it would belong among the heiti for parts of a ship. Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 235) suggests that the correct form could be arakló ‘eagle-claw’ and perhaps the proper name of a particular ship. That is unlikely, however, because two short syllables in metrical positions 2-3 would render the line unmetrical.