[4] þat ‘that’: Kock (NN §3263) construes this as a subordinate conj. referring back to þess ‘that’ in the previous clause (‘the ruler may expect it that I held little back’). Aside from the fact that þat ‘that’ functioning as the conj. at ‘that’ appears to be rare (see LP: þat; Fritzner: þat 2), Kock’s interpretation is less attractive because þat alliterates and is fully stressed, which one should not expect if it were a conj.