[1] snart: This could be (a) n. nom. or acc. sg. of the adj. snarr ‘swift, keen’, either used as an adj. or adverbially, ‘swiftly, soon’; (b) pret. sg. of snerta (við) ‘touch (on)’, as assumed in SnE 1848-87, II, 129 (tetigit ‘touched’), and cf. note on sík below.