[4] meyju (f. dat. sg.) ‘the Virgin’: Meyja (f. nom. sg.) ‘the maiden’ (so 721) could only be construed as the subject of the verb þakkar ‘thanks’ (l. 3): ‘the kneeling, yearning maiden gave thanks for her life and luck’. However, the ms. reading appears to be a lectio facilior (the noun is preceded by two adjs in the f. nom. sg.).