FriðÞ Lv 16VIII (Frið 18)/3 — dæsta ‘exhausted’
Ek bar átta til eldstóar
dæsta drengi í drifaveðri.
Nú hefi ek segli á sand komit;
erat hafs megin hægt at reyna.
Ek bar átta drengi dæsta í drifaveðri til eldstóar. Nú hefi ek komit segli á sand; megin hafs erat hægt at reyna.
I carried eight fellows, exhausted in the storm of sea-spray, to a fireplace. Now I have brought the sail onto the beach; the power of the ocean is not easy to experience.
readings
[3] dæsta: so 568ˣ, 27ˣ, papp17ˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ, ‘[…]sta’ 510, ‘dædsta’ 109a IIˣ
notes
[3] dæsta ‘exhausted’: The first two letters of this word in ms. 510 are rubbed and partly illegible. The first letter looks more like a <v> than a <d>, as earlier eds have thought, while the second may be a misshapen <æ>. This surmise is strengthened by 510’s clear væsta (from væstr ‘worn out by wet and exhaustion’) at Frið 21/3 where exactly the same line is repeated. The majority of the mss from both redactions read dæsta.