88.[°] I would not that lady Ingibjörg hear, etc. Lit. "the lady Ingibjörg will learn that I fled." There is a suppressed condition. "If I let you fight, the lady Ingibjörg would learn, etc." Hammershaimb's text (Antiq. Tídss.) v. 37, has a negative and no condition: "The lady Ingibjörg shall not learn," etc.
97.[°] O Hjalmar, give me now a drink. This incident appears to be taken from Gunnlaugs Saga, ch. 12.
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9.[°] Thunder is the red drum. Probably reyða ('red') is a printer's error for reiða ('angry'), though the same form occurs also in the version of the ballad published in the Antiquarisk Tídsskrift. In v. 16, however, we find skarið whereas in v. 17 the word is written skarðið, the form used in both verses in Antiq. Tídss., and the two words are obviously identical in both verses. Moreover in v. 21 einir ('own,' 'single') which gives little sense, is surely an error for eingir ('no,' adj.) as in vv. 11, 17, 19. The negative is also found in v. 21 in the version in the Antiq. Tídss., in the form ei, 'they have not fathers or mothers.' Indeed the entire ballad would seem to be somewhat carelessly printed in Færöiske Kvæðer.