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[3] næði (3rd pers. sg. pret. subj.) ‘managed to’: The variant indic. form náði (so FskBˣ, 51ˣ) is also possible, and would imply a merely temporal sense ‘before’ for áðr, whereas the subj. carries a sense of conditionality or causality.