[6] spjót nemr hjarta rótum ‘the spear strikes his heart at the roots’: Finnur Jónsson takes hjartarœtr as a cpd meaning ‘roots of the heart’ (Skj B; LP; cf. hjartrótum 43/6). As Kock points out, however (NN §2879), nema regularly takes the acc., and the object of the verb here must therefore be hjarta. With locative dat. rótum cf. e.g. víðum torgum ‘in the wide squares’ 10/2; NS §117.