[8] eikismiðr (m.): No satisfactory explanation has been offered for this otherwise unattested cpd. The first element could be derived either from the adj. eikinn ‘savage’ (referring to a bull; CVC: eikinn) or from the noun eik f. ‘oak’. For the second element, see smiðr ‘smith’ (st. 1/6 above). Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 263) suggests ‘oaken-smith, mighty smith’, but this would be an odd term for ‘ox’.