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[5] eg hef bitið ‘I’ve bitten’: The Rask87ˣ variant etið ‘eaten’ must have been introduced to provide double alliteration. It makes the line hypometrical, however, and fails to provide the required alliteration with belt ‘destroyed’ in l. 6.