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[3] hlaðna húfa ‘the loaded hull’: Both Skj B and Skald adopt the SnE variant húfa hafskips ‘the hull of the ocean-ship’. A hafskip was a cargo ship manned by a smaller crew (here sixteen). See Falk 1912, 108.