1 Sörli (Sǫrli)
a, m. [the root is Goth. sarwa = ὅπλα, πανοπλία; A. S. searo; O. H. G. saro, ga-sarawi; mid.H. G. ge-serwe = Lat. armatura]:—a pr. name, Hðm. (the son of king Jonakr), Landn., Sarius of Jornandes; the -li in Sör-li is a dimin. inflex., which would in Goth. be sarwi-la, since freq. as a pr. name, Landn., Lv. Sörla-stikki, the name of a poem, see stikki.
2 Sörli (Sǫrli)
II. meton, a gross, rough fellow is called sörli, (from the romance of Sörli the Strong?), whence sörla-ligr, adj., and sörlast, að, to go about as a sörli.