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[1, 2] es; sveimar ‘are; are wandering about’: Lit. ‘is; is wandering about’. For pl. subjects with sg. verbs, see NS §70. What is peculiar in this stanza (and in the next) is the close proximity between the sg. finite verbs and their pl. subjects.