[1] valglitnir (m.) ‘slaughter-glittering one’: An otherwise unattested cpd, most likely from valr m. ‘slain in battle’ and glitnir m. ‘shining one, glittering one’ (cf. glitnir ‘shining one’ and vígglitnir ‘war-glittering one’, Þul Hesta 1/3 and 2/5). Alternatively, the word could mean ‘pleasant-shiner’ (so SnE 1998, II, 420), in which the first element is either val- ‘selected, costly’ (from val n. ‘choice’) or val- (from valir ‘Welsh’, used in poetic compounds to designate luxurious foreign objects).