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It means vagina in Icelandic

Well at least it is equally offensive to everyone then

По-русски it is a "lance". So maybe a bit fallic.

I don't know why but someone edited my comment. The original had 2 footnotes which were combined into one. Now it is ambiguous. Thank you for your disservice.

Most likely, you had a single line break between the two footnotes, but you need two to actually start a new paragraph. And if you started your second footnote with two asterisks, that gets read as an empty italicized string.

Programmers are always debugging their surroundings :)

It's definitely a Pikachu call-out. See the mouse logo and the lightning favico.

I believe that "mouse" may be a Pika, a real animal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika