[8]: The line is incomplete and cannot be restored. The missing words must be a prep. or connective (in metrical position 3) followed by a short, bimoraic noun, a pronoun or a finite verb in metrical position 4 (e.g. at þat, í því ‘at that’, ok skar ‘and cut’). Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) suggests í styr ‘in battle’, which is metrically correct but unlikely, since styr also occurs in l. 3.