 Based upon Snorri's account, the Old Norse word "lúðr" might have referred to a 'coffin', a 'cradle', a 'chest', or some wooden part of a mill.Robert D. Fulk notes that Snorri's "Prose Edda" account "conflicts with the poetic version, as the ["Prose Edda"] presents a Noah-like figure, while the latter has Bergelmir laid ("lagiðr") in the "lúðr", implying he is an infant, as in the Scyld story.But Snorri does add the crucial element not made in the explicit verses, that the "lúðr" is to serve as a floating vessel."