Á sá hann falla eitri blandna;
fákr sparn fótum foldar sveita.
Hann sá á falla, blandna eitri; fákr sparn sveita foldar fótum.
He saw a river flow, mixed with poison; the horse kicked the blood of the earth [WATER] with its feet.
[3] sparn fótum (‘spann fötum’): ‘sporum’ 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, ‘spotum’ 743ˣ
[3] sparn … fótum ‘kicked … with its feet’: Ms. 742ˣ has ‘spann fötum’, where ‘spann’ is an orthographic variant of sparn (see Heggstad et al. 2008: sperna). The variants in 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ (‘sporum’) and 743ˣ (‘spotum’) must have been caused by scribal corruption at some point in the ms. transmission.