[7-8] í gegnum öll níu fullstór fóstrlönd ‘through all nine vast homelands’: Here fullstór ‘vast’ is construed as a n. acc. pl. adj. agreeing with níu fóstrlönd ‘nine homelands’, as in Hálf 1864 and FSGJ. Other eds have emended one or both of these words because the line as it stands is hypometrical; Edd. Min. has fullstórir menn ‘very powerful men’, in apposition to vér ‘we’ (l. 5); Skj B has fullstórir ǫll, taking fullstórir with vér and ǫll with an emended folklǫnd (see below, Note to l. 8); Skald prints fullstórum ǫll, understanding fullstórum as ‘very powerfully’ (cf. NN §3192), while Hálf 1909 emends to fullstóra ǫld, which Andrews translates as durch die große welt ‘through the vast world’.
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