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[2] göfugt fljóð (n. nom. sg.) ‘the splendid woman’: Skj B and Skald emend to göfug fljóð (n. nom. pl.) ‘the splendid women’, taken to mean that both men (þjóðir) and women praised Mary. However, þjóðir means ‘people’ in general, not ‘people of the male gender’.