[5-6]: The mistranslation (originating with Magnús Ólafsson) of l. 6 (see Introduction) as ex concavis crateribus craniorum ‘from the round bowls of skulls’ in Worm’s edn of 1636 (Worm 1636, 222-3), and the preposterous accompanying comment, also presumably by Magnús (Faulkes 1993a, 104-7): Sperabant Heroes se in aula Othini bibituros craniorum quos occiderant ‘The heroes expected that in Óðinn’s hall they would drink from the skulls of those they had slain’, left their unfortunate mark on many early translations of Krm, as shown in the Introduction.