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SJAFNAR

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The name SJAFNAR comes from SJǪFN and is originally derived from SJÖFN, and may have Icelandic or Old Norse origins.

Name of a minor Norse goddess, one of Frigg's handmaidens, said (by the Icelandic chieftain and poet Snorri Sturluson, d. 1241) to be related to Old Icelandic sjafni "love". Modern-day academics, however, argue that it might rather be related to Old Norse sefi meaning "sense" as well as "relation".

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