svarfaðr

svarfaðr
svörfuðr, svörfr, m. a sweeper, desolator (?), a nickname, Landn.; whence Svarfaðar-dalr, the name of a county in Icel.; Svarf-dælir, m. pl. the men from S.: Svarfdœla-saga, u, f. the Saga of the S., Landn.
II. svarfaðr eru sjau tigir, Edda i. 534, v. l. 7 (in Cod. Ub. and Arna-Magn. 748).

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