[4] er ek hefik önga eina: This anaphoric use of the rel. particle er at the beginning of the second half-line of a long-line is typical of ljóðaháttr (cf. NK II: er; Gering 1903: es I. A. 1; LP: es 9). Here it would refer to the first half-line At uppiverandi sólu and perhaps could be rendered in conjunction with the whole sentence At … litit as: ‘While the sun is up, then (er) I have seen not a single one more ugly’.