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[7] of hófsk upp ‘was lifted’: Hefjask
upp normally means ‘begin’, but
the context seems to demand the opposite meaning, ‘cease’; here it is taken as
a m. v. form of hefja upp ‘lift’, with that meaning. Of is the expletive particle.