[7, 8] hvárt hefir sannara við annað ‘which one has the law on their side against the other’: For the legal expression hafa sannara ‘to be in the right, to have the law on one’s side’, see Fritzner: sannr 1. The n. forms hvárt ‘which one’ and annað ‘the other’ are used because of ‘mixed company’ (the woman and the man).