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Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0705, entry 11
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The following entry has been hand-corrected once.

viki-vaki, a, m. [this word, which hardly occurs in old writers, seems in the 15th century to have been adopted] :-- a weekly wake, popular festival meetings and entertainments on Sunday evenings, with song and dance; förum vér til vikivaka | værðir þar og hvíld taka, Eggert; songs and ballads sung at such weekly wakes were called either vikivaka-kvæði or forn-kvæði, q.v.



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