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[5] það (n. acc. sg.) ‘that’: The verb biðja ‘ask’ usually takes the gen., and Skj B and Skald emend to þess (n. gen. sg.) ‘that’. However, biðja in the meaning ‘ask for something’ can also be construed with the acc. (see Fritzner: biðja).