[7] og gæddi giftu ‘and endowed him with grace’: Kock (NN §2886) correctly interprets gæddi as 3rd pers. pret. sg. of gœða, paralleling almáttigr guð valdi, but divided from its subject by an intercalary cl.: mítis ... kostum prýddr ‘gentle ... adorned with virtues’. Finnur Jónsson, Skj B, attempts to read gæddi as a participial adj., in apposition with prýddr: meginpostulinn kostum prýddr ... ok giptu gæddi ‘the chief Apostle adorned with virtues ... and endowed with grace’, but without proposing the emendation of gæddi to gæddr that such a reading would require.