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[5] gietrað ‘He is not able’: Ms. ‘Getr eigi’. Kock proposes this emendation, or to gat eigi, to improve the scansion (NN §2881). In a C14th text, a reading Gietr ei might also be possible. See Fritzner: ei adv. 2 ikke ‘not’; LP: ei.