- strita
- toil* * *(að), v.1) to drag with difficulty;2) refl., stritast, to strive hard (stritaðist hann við at sitja).* * *að, to struggle, strive hard; hann stritaði heim til skála, Grett. 151 A.2. reflex., stritaðisk hann við at sitja, he strove hard to sit, Nj. 66 (ironical).
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.