Note to Anon Stríðk 1III
[All]: The first helmingr of this complex stanza has to be understood as a direct address to a woman, in which the speaker claims he is deprived of ‘pleasure’ (leikr lit. ‘sport’), to be understood in the sense of sexual pleasure (cf. Anon (SnE) 2/2 where the noun is used in the same sense). He then expresses the wish that people might declare in his hearing that the woman in whom he is interested is a widow, thus presumably encouraging him in the hope that she might be available to him as a partner (see further Note to l. 8 stríðkera).