[2] hugarfár (n. nom. or acc. sg. or pl.) ‘the mind-danger’: This is most likely the subject of the defective cl., and the missing word must be the verb. Skald supplies óx ‘grew’ (see NN §2872) and Sperber gives sárt var þat hugar fár ‘bitter was that danger of the mind’. Neither reading is supported by the mss.