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[All]: It is not clear whom the stanza commemorates, but Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) suggests that it could have been Hjalti (based on the surmised h-alliteration in ll. 1-2). Hjalti was one of Hrólfr kraki’s champions (see sts 47-8 below).