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[All]: As with sextánmælt ‘sixteen-times spoken’ (see sts. 41-2), this syntactic pattern is not uncommon in dróttkvætt poetry, and it is not necessary (with Holtsmark, Hl 1941, 127) to look for Latin models for this variant.