Braut, en breki þaut,
borð — óx viðar morð —
— meðr fengu mikit veðr —
mjó fyr ofan sjó.
Braut mjó borð fyr ofan sjó, en breki þaut; morð viðar óx; meðr fengu mikit veðr.
The slender planks were broken above the sea, and the breaker resounded; the destruction of the tree [WIND] increased; men got severe weather.
[1] Braut en: ‘Brạụt eṇ’ 744ˣ
[1] braut ‘were broken’: Lit. ‘broke’. The verb brjóta ‘break’ is used impersonally with mjó borð ‘slender planks’ (ll. 2, 4) as the acc. object.