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 *SID, declining, hanging, tending downward.
 * SIDHOTTR, lit. Hanging-hat or hood.
 * SIDSKEGGR, lit. Hanging-beard; E. shag and shaggy.
 * SIP, signifying peace, friendship, relationship, a goddess, Sibja, Sippia, and Sib.
 * SIGFADIR, or SIGFODUR, the Father of Victory; L. pater.
 * SILFRINTOPPR, Silver-mane; E. silver: toppr, see Gulltoppr.
 * SINDRI, either scintillating or producing dross.
 * SJOFNA. F. Mag. derives it from the v. sja, to see.
 * SKADI, the magpie received its name from this goddess.
 * SKAFIDR, shaving, scraping.
 * SKEGGOLD, lit. Old-beard; also denoted a particular kind of battle-axe.
 * SKEIDBRIMIR, any space of time that is elapsing.
 * SKIDBLADNIR, lath, shingle, billet of wood, a sheath; E. blade, a blade or leaf of grass.
 * SKILFINGR, prob. to shake, to shatter.
 * SKINFAXI, Shining-mane: skin, splendour, light.
 * SKIRNIR, serene, pure, clear; E. sheer, which had formerly the same meaning.
 * SKOGUL, prob. from v. skaga, to jut out; whence skagi, a promontory.
 * SKOLL, to stick to, to adhere, to strike, to smite.
 * SLEIPNIR. E. slippery.
 * SLIDRUGTANNI, cruel, fierce, savage.
 * SNOTRA, to blow the nose; a person, even a goddess, being much more tidy when the nostrils are thoroughly emunctated.
 * SOKKVABEKKR, lit. Sinking-brook; to sink; an estuary, a shore, a brook.
 * SON, sound, song, sonus, cantus.
 * SURTUR, obscure, invisible; and invisible, unintelligible!! Surtur, according to Fin Magnusen, the invisible, unintelligible being whom the ancient Scandinavians regarded as "the great First Cause least understood" of all things.
 * SVADILFARI, lubricity, also slippery ice.
 * SVAFNIR, prob. from v. svefa, to cast asleep; sleep, quiet, repose.
 * SVALINN, the Refrigerating; to cool, to refrigerate.
 * SVARTALFAHEIMR, lit. Black or Swart Elves' home, region of the Elves of Darkness in contradistincition to that of the Elves of Light.
 * SVARTHOFDI, Black-head; svartr, black, swart.
 * SVASUTHR, Sweet-south; blithe, jocund, dear.
 * SVIDR and SVIDRIR, from v. svida, to scorch; or wise, powerful.
 * SVIPALL, to hasten, to vibrate; to wave, to hover; also with E. v. to sweep.
 * SYLGR, a draught or deglutition; to swallow; to swill; to guzzle, to feast.