[1] réðum ‘we [I] undertook’: Ms. ‘re᷎dum’ (ræðum ‘we speak’); all eds emend to (or read as, so Sveinbjörn Egilsson) réðum. The frequency of ráða + inf. ‘to undertake to’ (see LP: ráða 12), the lightness of the tittle (indicating possible attempted erasure), and the fact that (if restoration of kvæði is correct) the l. would be aðalhent rather than skothent, all argue against ræðum.