[6, 8] halsbaug ‘a neck-ring’: By tmesis. If halsbaug is not regarded as a cpd, hals must be construed with hringa in the kenning hristi-Sif hringa ‘the shaking Sif of rings’ (so Kock NN §1505). The stem vowel of hals was not lengthened until c. 1200 (ANG §124.3).