Note to Busla Busl 7VIII (Bós 7)
[9] villiz þú þá vegarins ‘you will then lose your way’: The additional line immediately after l. 9 in ms. 510 and several later mss clarifies what is meant by this ‘confusion’: ms. 510 has ok far í rassinn ‘and make your way into the arse’! This is the only place in Old Norse literature where heterosexual anal intercourse, which here is certainly portrayed as abnormal, is explicitly mentioned. In the context of níð, the sexual practices referred to more often allude to homosexual intercourse between men implicitly rather than explicitly (cf. below st. 8/6).