[2] illr ‘bad’: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848, 244) takes this as an adj. qualifying svanr ‘swan’ (l. 3), which is less preferable from the point of view of word order.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.