1 SKATI
a, m., pl. skatnar, poët.; [cp. Swed. skata = the top of a tree, a spar, and skat-vegr or skötu-vegr, skat-viða]:—a towering, lordly man, but only used in poetry, Edda (Gl.); skapleik skata, Höfuðl.; skati enn ungi, Hdl. 9; skatna margra, 21; er at skamt milli skata húsa, a saying, great men are not found at every door, Ad. 21; enginn veifiskati, no open-handed men, Ölk. 34; gull-skati, Edda (in a verse); þjóðskati, a great, lordly man, Höfuðl.: plur. men, skatna vinr, the friend of men, Yngl. S. (in a verse); skatna dróttinn, Skv. 1. 5; skatna mengi, Akv. 31, Skv. 3. 54; as a nickname, Fms. xi. 351.