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[1] valt ‘never’: Lit. ‘always’ (with negated verb). A variant form of ávalt (see Note to st. 13/8). Cf. Sverris saga (Sv ch. 165, ÍF 30, 259): seint þrýtr þann er verr hefir ‘he who has the worse case is slow to withdraw’.