[1] breiðleita ‘broad-faced’: This epithet, otherwise unattested in poetry, probably suggests the expanse of Hákon’s realm (LP: breiðleitr). It seems nowhere else to be applied to a female being (ONP: breiðleitr); contra Steinsland (1991, 124) it is not used of giants, male or female. This disjunctiveness, albeit mild in comparison to the ‘hair/foliage’ epithets in sts 5 and 7, like them hints that the subject is not an ordinary human or divine woman. Frank’s (1978, 64) suggestion that Jǫrð is portrayed here as a ‘broadfaced peasant girl’ is not convincing; the stereotyped female peasants in Rþ 10 and 13, for example, are quite different, and the epithet is always used positively.