[5] rósta varð í ranni ‘there was tumult in the hall’: Cf. Hamð 23/1 (NK 272) Styrr varð í ranni ‘There was uproar in the hall’ and Old English Beowulf l. 1302a Hrēam wearð on Heorote ‘There was uproar in Heorot’ (Beowulf 2008, 45), formulaic introductions to the topic of a hall-fight.