[6] ungr ‘[while] young’: Remarks on youthfulness are common, even conventional, in skaldic poetry. Þormóðr may in fact have been in his early thirties at this point in his life (cf. Lv 16/5, 7, 8). Emendation to dat. ungum was proposed by Valdimar Ásmundarson (Fbr 1899, 161). This would qualify jǫfri ‘prince’, in reference to Knútr, who was probably younger, as well as providing an extra syllable and allowing þeim es to contract to þeims, as is more usual. However, ungum would be unmetrical.