n., the older and truer form is skap-ker, Gm. 25 (Bugge, see the foot-note), Ó. H. 30, Edda i. 128 (Cod. Reg.), N. G. L. i. 31; the later and erroneous form is skapt-ker, Edda (Ub. l. c.), Eg. 24, Gísl. 166. Fb. ii. 33 (a v. l. to Ó. H. 30), Fms. vi. 241: [the word is therefore not derived from skapt, but from skepja = Germ. schöpfen]:—the large vessel in the hall from which the horns (cups) were filled (= Gr. κρατήρ); þat var horn Þóris ok hafði hann unnit (emptied it) ok ætlaði þú at bera til skaptkers, Fms. vi. 241, cp. Yngl. S. ch. 14; for the other references see above.