[5] urðhœings ‘of the stone-heap salmon [SERPENT]’: The mss read urhængs, which does not make sense. Árni Magnússon added ‘ur urd’ above ‘vr’ (which he had underlined) in 743ˣ, and subsequent eds have adopted the hap. leg. cpd urðhœings, in which the first element is urð ‘heap of stones’; the salmon of the heap of stones is a snake; together with jarðar ‘of the earth’ a gold-kenning is formed, and the nýtir ýtendr ‘capable givers’ (l. 6) of gold are generous men. On the metrically necessary form urðhœings rather than urðhœngs, see Nj 1875-89, II, 315-16.