[5-8]: Word order follows Bret 1848-9 and Skj B (cf. Merl 2012). Kock (NN §2164) proposes a word order en sá maðr kallaðisk ǫðru nafni inn ágæti Merlínus ‘but that man was called by another name the excellent Merlin’, but the combination sá inn needs no special explanation.