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[6] skarfǫgr ‘splendidly equipped with shields’: Lit. ‘stack-fair’. Hap. leg. formed from the verb skara ‘stack, join’ cf. skip skarat skjǫldum ‘a ship equipped with overlapping shields’. See Falk 1912, 55.