[5] nökkur nýjung ‘some new thing’: Schottmann (1973, 201) suggests that this is a translation of Lucifer’s exclamation in the homily of Maximus cited above: angeli … annuntiant, quam non intelligo novitatem ‘the angels ... announce something new, which I do not understand’ (Maximus Taurinensis, Homilia XXXVII, col. 305).