[2, 4] en spurðumk fyrir útan ‘but I made enquiries from outside’: Hellberg (1981a, 5-6) remarks that the clause could follow logically from either of the first two clauses in the stanza. Note that fyrir is to be construed with spurðumk, hence ‘I made enquiries’: see Skj B; NN §2472; ÍF 27.