[7] ef eggjar duga oss ‘if sword-blades serve us well’: The reading of Hb and 147, which is to be preferred over that of 1824b, ef svá duga dísir ‘if the dísir will lend support thus’, because it provides vocalic alliteration with the first syllable of Eysteinn, the head-stave in l. 8. There is no alliteration linking ll. 7-8 of 1824b. Most other eds adopt the Hb reading, with the exception of FSN, CPB (both with 1824b’s text), Ragn 1891 and Ragn 1985, the last two of whom read ef svá duga eggjar ‘if sword-blades avail’.