[4] í myrku húsi ‘in a prison’: Lit. ‘in a dark house’. Cf. st. 51/7 myrkvastofa; ‘prison’ Cf. Pétr 72/14-16: let hann gripa sælan Petrum ... var postolinn leiddr i myrkvastofu ok læstr ‘he had the blessed Peter seized … the apostle was taken to a prison and locked in’; Acts XII.1-4 Herodes ... adposuit adprehendere ... Petrum ... quem cum adprehendisset misit in carcerem. ‘Herod … proceeded to take up … Peter … and when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison.’