EDAY
Eday
island was once on a time the richest of all the northern islands,
and about thirty farmers lived there, but were driven out by a foreign
spoiler, so that barely one now remains.
There is a great abundance of all
things, especially of cattle.
The men very often fight with great
[sea] monsters, and when their hour is over they cut it up in dregs
[melt the dregs into fat], then boiled or cooked into oil*.
In circuit this island attains ten
miles.
* - probably relates to the fate of beached
whales.
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