[6] brá fǫstu ‘the fast ended’: Bregða ‘end’ (brá 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) is used impersonally with fǫstu ‘fast’ as the dat. object. This construction usually requires a gen. (‘of someone’) and Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) tentatively suggests an emendation of grástóði (n. dat. sg.) ‘for the grey stud-horses’ to grástóða (n. gen. pl.) ‘of grey stud-horses’. In the present edn grástóði is taken as an ethical dat. (collective, sg.).