[5]: The line is hypometrical, with three syllables, and Jón Þorkelsson (1888) suggests moving the conj. sem ‘as’ to l. 1: fer mier svó sem ‘it shall happen to me as’. Such a construction is extremely awkward, however, because it forces a syntactic break between metrical positions 3 and 4. It is possible that a word such as nú ‘now’ (Fer mier nú svó) has been omitted.