Rík þau urðu Ráðný ok Véboði
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja ok sárum snúa
ýmsum elda til.
Þau Ráðný ok Véboði urðu rík ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera; nú sitja þau ok snúa ýmsum sárum til elda.
Ráðný and Véboði became powerful and thought to do only good; now they sit and turn now one, now another wound towards the fires.
[6] elda: eldi all
[6] elda (gen. pl.) ‘fires’: The noun must be gen. pl., governed by til; the ungrammatical eldi dat. sg. is found in all but 2 mss (539ˣ and 24ˣ), not used in this edn. Eds uniformly make the emendation, following Bugge’s initial suggestion (1867, 359).