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[7] veldis himna ‘of the realm of the heavens’:
Wrightson takes this as the determinant in a kenning with a suppressed base-word (stillis ‘lord’), a parallel construction to stillis heiðar tjalds ‘the lord of the heath’s tent’ (l. 8).