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[4] hans batnaðar ‘of his improvement’: Both Skj B and Skald adopt an emended form of Bb’s ‘hars’ here instead of Flat’s hans, viz. hs batnaðr, giving the sense ‘hope of high improvement [salvation] gladdens the soul’.