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[2] Stara ‘Stari’: Name of one of the Hálfsrekkar (see Hálf 1981, 177). It means ‘starling’ and is, like some of the other personal names of this warrior band (e.g. Haukr ‘Hawk’, Hrókr ‘Rook’), a bird name.