--- "llama_nom" wrote:

> voganef. MM & HP: "Creek-nose". = vága- (If they're right, that is;
> but maybe other people's suggestions are possible too?)

According to the Icelandic editions this means "infected
nose, pus-nose", or possible "snot-nose".

> aur-goði. Mud or money? Thinks: "Where there's muck..." [
> http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/408900.html ]. Could it be
> connected to a place name?

Mud. Derived from place: "Markarfljótsaurar", where "aurar"
means something like "mud-flats". Supposedly derogatory, and
can hardly be anything else: "Lord of the Mudflats"!

Eysteinn