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[7] áðr dauðann tœki ‘before he took death, died’: Skj B and Skald omit the enclitic art. and normalise dauðann to dauða (acc. sg. of dauði ‘death’). The use of the subj. after the conj. áðr is very common (NS §§301-2B, Anm., 304).