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[8] óþarfr ‘harmful’: The meaning of óþarfr is lit. ‘useless’, but the adj. often has the connotation of ‘unhelpful’ and even ‘harmful’ (cf. Þskúm Lv 1/10I), which is how it appears to have been used here.