[12] vilskarpr (m.) ‘bowel-sharp one’: This name probably refers to the emptiness of a bear’s guts (vil n. pl.) after hibernation (cf. ‘shrivelled-gut’ suggested in SnE 1998, II, 429). The word is not found other than in the list of bjarnar heiti in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 88) and in the present þula.