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[4] borgar ‘strongholds’: Taken here as f. acc. pl. (see ANG §390.4), as the object of brutu (‘broke’). Skj B and Skald construe it as a gen. sg. with virki ‘rampart’ (virki borgar ‘the rampart of the stronghold’; see Note to l. 3 above).