Note to Gestumbl Heiðr 17VIII (Heiðr 64)
[8] ker ‘keg’: Not in the main ms. and makes the line hypermetrical, and most eds omit, but the keg is clearly what is being referred to rather than the ale inside. To include it here avoids the need for more drastic emendation (cf. Note to l. 4 öl above), and although R715ˣ’s reading, konungr ‘king’, is clearly nonsensical (and ungrammatical), it at least supports there originally having been a word (perhaps beginning with k) here. Heiðr 1873 (247) retains, though omits the previous sá er ‘that one’, making the line more acceptable metrically.