A comment on a textual emendation to Bjarnar saga Hítdǿlakappa

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At the end of Bjarnar saga Hítdǿlakappa, it is related that after Bjǫrn has died in a heroic last stand, his adversary Þórðr, at the request of Kálfr, goes to Hólm to give to Þórdís, Bjǫrn's wife, an ornament that Bjǫrn had worn around his neck. Kálfr hands Þórdís the ornament, but she throws the ornament at Þórðr and tells him to give it to his wife Oddný. At the sight of the ornament, Oddný, Bjǫrn's lifelong love, sinks down and loses all consciousness of people around her. By the time the swoon lifts from her, she has lapsed into an illness, from which she eventually dies. The extant manuscripts of the saga report that "hon mornaði ǫll ok þorrnaði ok røddi aldri síðan tanna ok lifði þó mjǫk lengi við þessi óhøgindi."