[1] beggja rista ‘of both insteps’: So also Skj B and Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 225). Kock (NN §1271) argues that beggja (gen. pl.) ‘of both’ ought to qualify hvarma (gen. pl.) ‘of eyelids’ (l. 2), but such a syntactic arrangement would be highly unusual (see Kuhn 1983, 135; Gade 1995a, 131-4). In Skald Kock indicates that beggja qualifies rista rather than hvarma.
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