Note to ǪrvOdd Lv 16VIII (Ǫrv 49)
[1-2] hvar váruð* þá, veslar snýtur ‘where were you then, pathetic snotty wretches’: Those eds who keep these lines (Ǫrv 1888; Ǫrv 1892) emend ms. var to váruð ‘you (pl.) were ...’, taking the initial <þ> of the ms.’s þit as part of the verb and retaining an alternative form, it, of the second person dual pron. þit. However, line 1 is a Type B-line with alliteration on v-, and it would be highly unusual to have a verbal ending ‑uð plus a personal pron. in the dip. In addition, line 2 is suspect, with resolution on the first lift in a trisyllabic word (vesalar). Here the ms. form has been normalised to the two-syllable variant veslar (for the variants vesal-/vesl- see Heggstad et al. 2008: vesall) and line 1 further emended to Hvar váruð þá ‘Where were you then?’