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[2] skip dverga ‘ships of dwarfs [POEMS]’: For kennings of this type, in which ‘ship’ is explained as an ofljóst construction (líð is ‘strong beverage’ and lið is ‘ship, vessel’), see Meissner428 and SnE 1998, I, 14.