[3] mæki ‘the sword’: This must be assumed to be the dat. sg. of mækir m. ‘sword’, governed by the prep. fyrir in the phrase falla fyrir ‘to fall (in battle) before’ in ll. 2, 3; see LP: falla 4 and fyrir B2. The present ed. follows previous eds from Wisén (1886-9) onwards in adopting this reading rather than meiði, dat. sg. of meiðir ‘destroyer, harmer’, which was adopted by earlier eds. To judge from LP: meiðir, this word occurs exclusively as a base-word in kennings, and it would lack a determinant here.