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[5] styrja (f.) ‘sturgeon’: Cf. OE styria ‘sturgeon’. This is the Atlantic or European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio). The word is not used in skaldic poetry but it occurs in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: styrja).