Stál

As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):

stál Old Icelandic word can mean:

stál

n.

stál

1) steel (sverð, spjót ór ~i);

stál

sverfa til ~s, to fight it out to the last (hann kvað þá verða at sverfa til ~s með þeim);

stál

2) steeled weapon (heyra mátti fjórar mílur er ~in mœttust);

stál

3) the beak of a ship (þeir höfðu raskótt fyrir ~inu);

stál

4) the inside of a haystack (hann tók laust hey ór ~inu);

stál

5) intercalary sentence in a verse.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛏᛅᛚ