[8] litir ‘dyes’: Emended in Merl 2012 to litr ‘dye’, so as to create concord with the sg. verb hefr (lit. ‘has’). But this is unnecessary, since often the sg. of the verb is used when a pl. subject is placed later in the clause (NS §66b Anm. 3); moreover, the emendation would introduce a trisyllabic line at a point in the poem where such lines do not otherwise occur.