[2] œgi ‘terrifier’: Understood here as from œgir m. (cf. 3/3 above), and so a term for the World Serpent (cf. NN §2206D), rather than from ægir m. ‘ocean’, whether as a common noun or personified as Ægir, a giant representing the sea. Skj B construes Vágs hyrsendir vildit ofra vrǫngum ægi as Manden … vilde ikke yppe strid mod den grumme sø ‘The man [Hymir] … did not want to pick a quarrel with the cruel sea’. However, the mss’ ægi are likely to reflect the unrounding of [ø:] to [æ:], which occurred by at least c. 1220 (Hreinn Benediktsson 1965, 67-70).