[1] remman brast ‘the bitterness sprang forth’: Cf. ONP: bresta A.3. The verb bresta is used of things that spring forth after having been pent up: flóð brestr í hlíð ‘a river bursts down a mountainside or over a cliff’, kelda brestr upp ‘a well springs forth’, blóð brestr út ‘blood gushes out’ (JH).