Note to Anon Pét 44VII
[6] guð veldr ‘God causes [that]’: Kock (NN §1746) would substitute an otherwise unattested cpd *góðveldr, to be read in apposition with skærr (l. 7). To this nonce-cpd he assigns the meaning luttrad ‘purified’ (as if from góðr ‘good’ and p.p. of vella ‘to seethe, boil’, hence ‘made good by being smelted/refined in a crucible’?). The forms guð and góð- are not, however confused elsewhere in the ms. (guð is regularly abbreviated, góð- never is), and Finnur Jónsson’s interpretation of the ms. reading as an intercalary cl. makes adequate sense without emendation.