[4] reist jarðar ‘the twisted thing of the earth [= Miðgarðsormr]’: A kenning for the World Serpent, Miðgarðsormr, who was imagined to lie coiled around the circular earth. It belongs to a kenning-type whose base-word represents the serpent as a thong, rope, girdle or ring (Meissner 114-15). Reistr m. is a hap. leg., lit. ‘twisted, bent thing’; cf. the weak verb reista ‘bend, curve’ and see Marold (1993b, 301 n. 10).