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[6] felt rauðu ‘were hooded with red’: Or ‘put on red headgear’ (verb falda ‘to clothe the head’), a conventional circumlocution meaning ‘died in battle’ (LP: 2. falda). The image is one of blood streaming down from a head-wound.