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[1] ættstuðill ‘a lineage-pillar’: That is, a pillar of the family. The form of the word with átt- (so W) is a normal variant (see LP: áttstuðill; ættstuðill), and adopted in Skj B and Skald (presumably to avoid aðalhending in an odd line).