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[4] gjǫlnir (m.) ‘gilled one’: A hap. leg. The name is derived from gjǫlnar f. pl. ‘gills of a fish’. According to Bjarni Sæmundsson (1926, 398), ModIcel. gjölnir is a kind of fish, Alepocephalus giardi, i.e. Baird’s smooth-head.