[All]: Sverrir continues as follows (ÍF 30, 257): Ólíkir eru þér inum fyrrum Birkibeinum, þeir er gengu til lands með mér móti Magnúsi konungi ‘You are unlike the Birkibeinar of old who conquered the country with me against King Magnús’. Sverrir was fond of referring to the prowess of ‘the Birkibeinar of old’ in his speeches. During the siege of Slottsfjellet in Tønsberg, for example, he incites his troops with the following taunt, echoing the present st. (ÍF 30, 273): ok ólíkir eru þér þeim er í forneskju eru sǫgur af gǫrvar ‘and you are unlike those about whom sagas were made in olden days’.