[1-2]: The Flat reading of these ll. may conceivably be construed as varðk of hríð með herði hjǫrþyss í Orkneyjum ‘I was for a while with the strengthener of sword-tumult in the Orkneys’. However, þyss ‘tumult’, usually denoting uproar in a crowd of people, does not otherwise occur as a part of kennings (see LP: þyss), and the Flat version appears to be secondary.