[5, 6] bauð um halfan Nóreg ‘gave power over half of Norway’: Bjóða um e-t lit. means ‘give power of attorney over sth.’ (see Fritzner: bjóða um; ÍF 28, 210-11 n.). Bauð upp ‘offered up’ (so H, Hr) is also a possible reading (but lower on the stemma), and it has been adopted in Skj B and Skald.