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[3] ǫrn ‘the eagle’: Mss R and A read ǫrnu (m. acc. pl.) ‘eagles’, but the Tˣ reading is preferred here (as also in Skj B and Skald, but not SnE 1998) as otherwise the line would have six metrical positions and would thus be anomalous.