Note to Anon Lil 70VII
[7] hier ‘there’: The word commonly means ‘here’ or ‘hither’. Other mss have þá. If it is to have that meaning here, the syntax of the sentence must be finz eigi óbrunnið upp ór skýjum og hier niðr að grunnum ‘is found unburned up above the clouds and here below on the ground’. But when addressing someone from afar (e.g. in a letter), it can mean ‘there [where you are]’ (see Heggstad, Hødnebø and Simensen 1997: hér 4). The previous st. is addressed to Christ in heaven, and perhaps the image continues in this st. ‘neither up there [where you are] …’