[All]: The epithet is the word herská ‘beset by war, war-torn’. After the list of examples of epitheton, Óláfr states (TGT 1927, 80): Í ǫllum þessum háttum er óeiginlig líking milli viðleggjanligs nafns ok undirstæðiligs, ok þykkir þessi fígúra mest prýða skáldskap; þat kǫllu vér sannkenning ‘In all of these types there is an inexact comparison between an adjectival and substantival noun, and this figure is considered to be the greatest embellishment of poetry; we call it sannkenning’.