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[4] mest* ‘greatest’: There is no m. nom.
sg. noun in the helmingr for ms. mestr ‘most’ (adj.) to qualify, so it must be
emended, here to n. nom. sg. (modifying hóf ‘restraint’); mest could alternatively be taken
as an adv.