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[4] blývarða (hap. leg.) ‘plumb bob’:
An echo of Exod. XV.10, which describes the fate of Pharaoh’s army pursuing the
Israelites into the Red Sea: submersi sunt quasi plumbum in aquis
vehementibus ‘they sunk as lead in the mighty waters’.