Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 44III
[4] of vann ‘waged’: Of is the expletive particle (so most earlier eds). Ok ‘and’ (so both mss) is apparently a misreading of a word Rugman did not understand. Holtsmark (Hl 1941, 72) attempts to retain the ms. reading: því at margkostigr var mesti | mildingr ok vann hildi ‘because the very splendid one was the greatest generous man and waged war’. That rendering is syntactically implausible (see Jón Helgason, ibid.) and metrically incorrect (var ‘was’ cannot occur in this position in a Type C-line).