[8] dreif sveita (m. dat. sg.) ‘there was a blizzard of blood’: Lit. ‘it snowed with blood’. Skj B emends sveita ‘blood’ to sveiti (m. nom. sg.) in analogy with st. 40/4. However, drífa ‘snow’ can equally well be construed impersonally with a dat. object (see NN §2074).