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[7] gladdan ‘gladdened’: Gladdan ‘gladdened’ is preferable to glaðan ‘glad’ both from a contextual and from a metrical point of
view, and it looks as though the latter was caused by the verb vera ‘be’ rather than verða ‘become, be’ in positions 7-8.