[4] stétt ‘you stepped’: So Tˣ, W, U. This is a form of strong verb stíga ‘step’ (Gmc *staig-t > *staiht > stétt; cf. the old 3rd pers. sg. pret. sté), though Faulkes (SnE 1998, I, 17) adopts the reading stóttu ‘you stood’ (a form of standa ‘stand’) on the basis of R. If the verb intended were a form of standa, the prep. of ‘over’ would require the dat., though dauða ‘dead’ is acc. sg. The form in all the mss other than R is thus to be preferred.