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[3] sýjur (f. pl.) ‘clinchings’: Most likely rows of rivets (seams of nails) joining the strakes together (from the weak verb sýja ‘sew’). See Falk (1912, 49) and AEW: sýja 1-2. Sýjur could also be used as a pars pro toto for ‘ships’.