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[3] brúðir ‘women’: Several mss (1006ˣ, 173ˣ, 342ˣ, 109a IIˣ) offer the reading bornar (p. p. f. pl. nom. ‘born’), which makes equally good sense here: bornar verstar (‘the worst ones [ever] born’).