[1] æli ‘a wretch’: Ms. W has ‘Øle’. Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, II, 216-17 n. 7) argued for the spelling auli, but there is no problem with <ø> representing original [ø:], later [æ:]. Æli occurs in Old Icelandic nowhere else as a simplex, though the cpd mannæli ‘wretched fellow’ is recorded once, in Finnb (ÍF 14, 256), and in later Icelandic the form ælingi occurs with a similar sense. Corresponding forms are more evident in Norwegian (see Jón Helgason 1970a, 212 for examples).