[2] hafa ‘they have’: Ms. ‘h’ with superscript ‘a’; NN §1397 suggests reading ms. abbreviation as hefr ‘(you) have’, agreeing with an implied 2nd pers. subj.; cf. ert (ms. ertu) (l. 3). While addressing the intercalary clause to the Cross would accord with frequent descriptions of the altar covered with blood, the pl. í brjóstum ‘in (their) breasts’ supports the pl. verb. In NN §1397 Kock renders þess ‘its’ (l. 2) as ‘for its sake’ but in §1397 construes it as a rel. pron. referring to lamb (l. 1).