Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 22’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 514-15.
Vann í Elfi, þars jǫfurr barðisk,
fall folkstara, til fǫðurleifðar.
Skulfu skeyti; skot mǫgnuðusk;
hnigu hringviðir hvárratveggju.
Vann fall {folkstara} í Elfi, þars jǫfurr barðisk til fǫðurleifðar. Skeyti skulfu; skot mǫgnuðusk; {hringviðir} hnigu hvárratveggju.
‘He furnished slaughter for the battle-starling [RAVEN] in the Götaälv, where the prince fought for his patrimony. Arrows shook; shots intensified; sword-trees [WARRIORS] fell on both sides.’
Sigurðr steered west and headed up the Götaälv, where he captured six ships from Þórir hvínantorði and Óláfr, the son of Haraldr kesja Eiríksson.
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