"Ergi" and "argr" (Wendish 'inclosure') or "ragr" (Wendish 'entrance') can be regarded as specifying swearwords. "Ergi", "argr" and "ragr" were the severe insults made by calling someone a "coward", and due to its severity old Scandinavian laws demanded retribution for this accusation if it had turned out unjustified. The Icelandic Gray Goose Laws referred to three words that were regarded as equal to "argr" by themselves. Those were "ragr", "strodinn", and "sordinn", all three meaning the passive role of a man included in same-sex activities among males. Another semantic belonging to "argr", "ragr" and "ergi" was, from the "Gray Goose", "being a sorcerer's friend."