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[1] gief þú (imp. sg.) ‘give’: Skj B emends to gefa (inf.) ‘give’ which is taken as an inf. modified by mátt (2nd pers. sg. pres. indic.) of mega ‘be able to’. In the present edn mátt is m. acc. sg. of máttr ‘power’ (so also Skald and Wrightson).