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[6] eptir ‘back’: Hofmann (1955, 46) remarks that the meaning is dependent on OE eft ‘back, again’ (the poet, he says, would in fact have used the form ept), as the adv. usually means ‘behind’. Lindquist (1929, 8) emends to aptr ‘back’.