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[8] dreyra Hôkunar ‘Hákon’s blood’: This is taken here as acc. sg. object of drekka ‘drink’ (l. 5). Dreyra could
alternatively be taken as dat. sg. with p. p. roðin (l. 7), hence ‘(the spears)
reddened with Hákon’s blood’.