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[3] lýðir: ON lýðir m. pl. means ‘people’. As a heiti for ‘serpent’, lýðir is not attested elsewhere, and it is an obscure word which may be related to ModIcel. lúðra ‘creep, crawl’ (for details, see ÍO: lýðir).