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[1] benjeldar ‘wound-fires [SWORDS]’: Though it is missing in the mss, the glide [j]had not yet been lost at the time of composition, as shown by the metre (Kuhn 1983, 48). On the kenning in its poetic context, see Note to l. 6 below.