of his fathers.'

|| Earl Hakon went forthwith south to More, to reconnoitre and collect
men, while Earl Eirik assembled his host & took it southwards.

|| The Jomsborg vikings brought their hosts to Limfjord and thence sailed
out to sea; sixty ships had they, and they took them across to Agdir
whence without tarrying shaped they a course northward to the dominion
of Earl Hakon. They sailed off the coast, plundering & burning
wheresoever they went. Now there was a certain man named Geirmund who
was sailing in a light boat & had but few men with him, & he came to
More where he found Earl Hakon, & going in before the Earl as he sate at
meat told him that there was an host to the southward which was come
from Denmark. The Earl asked if he knew this in good sooth, and
Geirmund, holding up one of his arms from which the hand had been
severed, said that that was the token that a host was in the land.

Then did the Earl question him closely concerning this host, & Geirmund
said that it was the Jomsborg vikings, & that they had slain many men
and plundered far & wide: 'Nevertheless they are travelling speedily and
hard.

Methinks it will not be long before they are here.'

So then the Earl rowed up all the fjords, inwards along one shore and
outwards along the other faring night and day, and he sent scouts on to
the upper way across the isthmus,Sec. & south in the Fjords, & likewise
north where Eirik was now with his host.

It is of this that Eirik's lay telleth:

'War-wise was the Earl who had long-ships on the main
Heading with lofty prows against Sigvaldi,
Mayhap many an oar shook,
But the seamen who rent the sea with strong oar-blades
Feared not death.'

|| Earl Hakon took his host southwards as speedily as ever he was able.

|| Sailing northwards with his fleet Earl Sigvaldi rounded Stad, and
first put in over against Hereya. Here, although the vikings fell in
with the folk of the country, never could they get from them the truth
as to the whereabouts of the Earl. Whithersoever they went the vikings
pillaged, & in the island of Hod they ran up ashore & plundered the
people, taking back with them to their ships both folk and cattle,
though all men capable of bearing arms they slew.

Now as they were going down again to their ships an old man approached
them-- for he was walking nigh to the men of Bui-- and unto them said
he, 'Not as warriors go ye here, driving neat and calves down to the
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