[8]: Kock (NN §§1157, 2747A) completes this line as follows: bauga garð fránna jarðar, i.e. garð fránna bauga jarðar ‘the pit of the shining rings of the earth [SNAKE-PIT]’. That reading is entirely conjectural, although it is clear that the last helmingr describes Gunnarr being thrown into the snake-pit (see, e.g. Akv 31, Am 66-7 and Vǫls ch. 39).