[7] úfr (m.) ‘gruff one’: This heiti is a substantivised adj. (úfr ‘unfriendly’; AEW: úfr 4). As a heiti for ‘bear’ the word is found only in the present þula and in the later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: úfr). Mss A and B (744ˣ) have the variant ulfr ‘wolf’ (cf. the next heiti).