[8] ornir (m.) ‘one warming itself’: A hap. leg. most likely derived from the weak verb orna ‘get warm’. The name could allude to a serpent’s habit of basking in the sun. The length of the root vowel is not certain, however, and the correct form could be órnir (cf. óri ‘raver’ in l. 6; see also ÍO: Órnir). Holthausen’s (1948, 217) assumption that ornir could be related to ormr ‘snake’ is unlikely.