[2] rak (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) ‘turned’: So Rask87ˣ, which is metrically preferable, being a regular line of Type A, and all the other finite verbs in this stanza are in the pret., while rekr ‘turns’ in 603 is 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. All earlier eds retain the 603 reading.