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[4] fáir * ‘few’: Þóttu ‘they thought’ (so both mss) has been omitted because it makes the line hypermetrical: see NN §2076 and Hl 1941). Skj B omits kunnu ‘could do’ and reads fáir þóttu betr ‘few were thought to be better’, which is also possible.