[1] eymðit ‘did not soften’: So Konráð Gíslason, 1879a, 195-7. The R reading ‘Ø̨mþit’ may, like U and A, represent Eymðit since normalised ey is among the values of <ǫ> in R, though rare (see SnE 1848-87, III, xvi-xvii). The (rare) verb eyma is a derivative of the adj. aumr ‘poor, wretched’.