[1-4]: Kock (NN §1204C) highlights the alternation between the use of the dat. instr. by itself (saxi ‘with short-sword’, síðri brynju ‘with long mailcoat’; also attributes in ll. 5-7) and with the preposition með ‘with’ in l. 3. A similar effect occurs in HlǫðH Lv 2/7-12 (Heiðr 94).