Heimskringla - History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Author:Snorri Sturluson [Sturluson, Snorri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: norse, viking, asatru, pagan
Publisher: [DerHammer]
Published: 2010-07-04T22:00:00+00:00

(88.)

277. Bore—its beak, with red gold

burnished—his noble warship,

Serpent the Long, the unswerving

son of Tryggvi1 to battle.

Another ship did Óláf,2

oaken-planked and gold-dight

launch—the waves oft washed hard

Vísund’s horns—on seashore.

Then the king sailed south to Horthaland. He learned that Erling Skjálgsson had left the country with a large force and four or five ships. He himself had a large galley, and his sons, three ships of twenty rowers’ benches each, and they had sailed west to join Knút the Powerful. King Óláf then proceeded east [south] along the land with a huge force. He made inquiries whether people knew anything about the plans of Knút the Powerful. They all knew that he was in England. However, King Óláf was told also that Knút had ordered a levy and intended to proceed to Norway. But because King Óláf had a large force and he could not obtain certain information where he should sail for an encounter with Knút, and also because his men considered it unwise to tarry in one spot with so large an army, he came to the decision to steer his fleet south to Denmark; and on that expedition he had with him all that force which he considered most warlike and best equipped, and gave the others leave to return home, as we are told in this verse:

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