[3] … verðr lýðr á láði: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1844, 30 n. 68) reconstructs the first word of the l. as opt ‘often’, giving the second cl. lýðr á láði opt verðr lastauðigr ‘people on earth often become rich in sin’. This suggestion is adopted by Skj B, Skald and Black.