[5-8]: Ylgr gein of svíra mönnum roðna blóði ‘The she-wolf gaped over the necks of men, reddened with blood’ seems straightforward, but the remainder of the helmingr is problematic (and defeated eds up to and including Olsen), especially because aldri ‘never’ in l. 5 would seem to cancel out this conventional image of success in battle and because ms. ‘grat’ in l. 6 is difficult to account for, see the next two Notes.