Note to Anon Brúðv 31VII
[7-8]: It is hard to make good sense of these ll. They seem to mean that a poet gets greater rewards for a composition that has actually been recited, rather than one that has been composed but not performed. In 32/3 the poet indicates that ‘the comfort of poems’ is a medium through which Mary helps him. There are two possible ways to construe the last couplet, and both have much the same meaning; either as presented in the Translation and Prose order above or: mest laun eru fyrir kveðinn ljóða óð ‘the greatest rewards are for a recited poetic song’.