[5] Þróttar ‘of Þróttr <= Óðinn>’: This emendation, first proposed by Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1832, 7), seems unavoidable. The ms. reading ‘þottar’ could only be nom. pl. of þóttr/þótti m. ‘thought’, which neither makes sense nor provides a determinant for skýja ‘of the clouds’.