[5] rǫndum ‘shield-rims’: To avoid two references to shields, Skj B emends to rǫngum ‘ship’s ribs’ (which Hallberg 1975, 117, takes to be the meaning of rǫndum), and Lindquist (1929, 4) and Skald emend to brǫndum ‘prows’. Kiil (1958a, 32) interprets rǫndum to refer to the upper edge of the ship’s sides. Sievers (1879, 296) would delete l. 6 altogether.
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