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Descriptive
Bynames – Habits
After comparison bynames, bynames poking fun at a person’s habits are most common.
vExamples: andvaka (“awake”), barnakarl (“child’s man, no killer of children”), blígr (“staring, gazing”), dengir (“scythe-sharpener”), eldboðungr (“fire-bidder”), inn fiskni (“good at fishing”), gapi (“yawner”), gjallandi (“shrieking”), gnúpa (“crouch, stoop”), hófleysa (“excess,
intemperance”), karpi (“braggart”), ofsi (“arrogant,
tyrannical”), inn skjálgi (“squinting”), stígandi
(“stepper, strider”), þausnir (“romper, rager”), etc.