[14] hæstrar tíðar (f. gen. sg.) ‘at the most opportune time’: Lit. ‘at the highest time’ (gen. of time). Hæstrar tírar (so all mss) makes no sense syntactically, because hæstrar lit. ‘the highest’ is f. gen. sg. and tírar ‘of honour’ is m. gen. sg. The emendation is in keeping with earlier eds.