[2] ásynja flóðs ‘the goddess of the sea [= Rán]’: Ásynjum f. dat. pl. ‘goddesses’ (so all mss) makes no sense syntactically and has been emended to ásynja f. nom. sg. to provide a subject for the verb rýtr 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. ‘wails’ (l. 3). Rán, wife of the sea-giant Ægir in Old Norse myth, is a personification of the ocean (see Note to Þul Ásynja 2/7).