- varð-lokkur
- f. pl. [Scot. warlock], ‘ward-songs,’ ‘guardian songs,’ charms (or better, ‘weird-songs.’ cp. the other form, urðar lokkur); hvárki em ek fjölkunnig né visinda-kona, en þó kenndi Halldis fóstra mín mér á Íslandi þat kvæði, er hón kalladi varðlokkur, Þorf. Karl. 378; from this word comes the Scot. ‘warlock,’ though it has changed its sense to that of the wizard himself.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.