[4]: The entire first helmingr, except for its final word tafni (n. dat. sg.) ‘carrion, prey’ or ‘offering, sacrifice’, is lacking in Bb. Apparently the scribe’s exemplar had a lacuna here; a much later hand notes vantar í ‘some missing’ at the bottom of fol. 112v, after st. 16. It is likely that a significant number of stanzas are missing (see Introduction).