[5] þó ‘nevertheless’: The mss differ over the order of the first three words in l. 5, and over the precise adv. used. Þó is preferred here as the reading of 54, Bb and 53, as against þá ‘then’ in 61 alone, and it is contextually more meaningful: despite the damage done by Vagn and the Jómsvíkingar, Eiríkr prevails.