[5-6]: Skj B (so also Jón Þorkelsson) construes emk skyldr at skýra mærð þess aldar stýris, er var æztr jöfra which translates as jeg har den pligt at forklare den fyrstes lov, som var den ypperste af fyrster ‘I am obliged to explain the praise of that prince, who was the foremost of princes’. That reading creates an unnecessarily complex w. o. (see NN §1374). The reasoning of Finnur and Jón was most likely that the sup. adj. œztr ‘foremost’ is usually constructed with a noun in gen. pl. However, ǫld (gen. sg. aldar) is frequently used in skaldic poetry with a pl. meaning (‘people, men’, see LP: ǫld 3).