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[3] ôrum bens ‘the oars of the wound [SWORDS]’: This (bens ôrum in the Text) is an attested sword-kenning pattern (Meissner153); the variant beinsôrum (so 54, Bb) ‘bone-wounds’ does not give good sense and duplicates sôrum in l. 4.