[2] íslenzkum her ‘the Icelandic people’: Herr m. is normally used of a military force but occasionally occurs in phrases denoting the population of a region, adherents of a particular religion, etc., as here (see LP: herr 2; Fritzner: herr 1). This is the first instance in the skaldic corpus of the use of the adj. íslenzkr to denote the population of Iceland collectively; the next occur in the C14th (see LP: íslenzkr).