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[4] við eitt höfuð ‘against one head’: That is, against one man, Útsteinn himself, who refers to himself in the 3rd pers. throughout this stanza. Hǫfuð ‘head’ is used here in the sense ‘individual person or thing’; cf. Fritzner: höfuð 3.