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[3, 4] at breiddu stáli ‘against the spread-out prow’: The ‘spread-out prow’ must refer to the frontal view of the ship’s broad bow (see Falk 1912, 36; Jesch 2001a, 150). Kock (NN §3090) suggested the emendation to brætt ‘tarred’.