The Old Norse word sveigja
Word sveigja
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Meaning to bow, to bend

Other words that might be of interest
bernu ‘bear’, bjørn ‘bear’, flokksforingi ‘captain, leader’, høfðingi ‘chief, leader’, knífr ‘knife’, forkólfr ‘leader, chief’, reip ‘rope’, binda ‘to bind, to fasten’, leiða ‘to lead’