Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 24’ 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. 515-16.
Helt á Lista lofðungr skipum
ǫrr fyr Agðir austan af Nesjum.
Hné hersa kyn; herr vas í landi;
brunnu byggðir fyr buðlungi.
Ǫrr lofðungr helt skipum á Lista fyr Agðir austan af Nesjum. Kyn hersa hné; herr vas í landi; byggðir brunnu fyr buðlungi.
‘The valiant lord steered the ships to Lista past Agder east from Nesjar. The kin of hersar fell; an army was in the land; settlements burned before the ruler.’
In the summer of 1138, Sigurðr and Magnús inn blindi returned to Norway from Denmark. They sailed along the southern coast of Norway to Lista, where they attacked and killed Benteinn Kolbeinsson.
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Helt á Lista
lofðungr skipum
ǫrr fyr Agðir
austan af Nesjum.
Hné hersa ;
herr vas í landi;
brunnu byggðir
fyr buðlungi.
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