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• Lævateinn (Lævateinn)

  Mythical weapon, a twig or staff forged by Loptr (Loki) below the gates of death and kept by the giantess Sinmara.

• landnám (landnám)

  The colonisation process by which settlers claimed land in Iceland during the 9th-10th centuries.

• ljóðaháttr (ljóðaháttr)

  Old Norse verse form alternating long lines with shorter full lines, common in wisdom poetry.