[3] hǫggs (n. gen. sg.) ‘of the sword-blow’: Skj B emends hǫggs ‘of the sword-blow’ (papp25ˣ ‘hogs’; R683ˣ ‘haugs’) to hjaldrs (m. gen. sg.) ‘battle’ (ljós hjaldrs ‘the light of battle’). For the spelling <g> for <gg>, see Hl 1941, 107. Kock (NN §491) retains the reading of R683ˣ and suggests ljós haugs ‘the light of the grave-mound’ referring to swords buried with their owners. However, papp25ˣ has hǫggs (‘hogs’, possibly corrected from ‘gogs’), and ‘the light of the sword-blow’ is in keeping with the imagery of the stanza.