[5] skal ek ‘I … shall’: All previous eds apart from those of CPB and Rafn (FSN) omit the 1st pers. pron., taking the kenning in l. 7 as the subject of the sentence and skal as 3rd rather than 1st pers. sg. There is no reason why it should be omitted, however, either syntactically or metrically: the kenning in l. 7, to be discussed below, may be taken as an appositive semantic expansion of the 1st pers. pron. (‘I, the …’), and skal ek could be normalised to skalk.