[1, 2] grandi svanna ‘the harm of women’: Svanna is oblique sg. or gen. pl., and it is difficult to accommodate syntactically except as a part of the noun phrase grandi svanna, taken here to mean ‘harm caused by women’, perhaps by their spreading rumours or by cursing. Cf. Nj ch. 116, ÍF 12, 292: eru kǫld kvenna ráð ‘cold is the counsel of women’, as well as Queen Gunnhildr cursing Hrútr and causing his future impotence (Nj ch. 6, ÍF 12, 21).