Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 32’ 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, p. 520.
Herskildi fór harri Sygna
allt it ýtra eyjar ok strandir.
{Harri Sygna} fór herskildi eyjar ok strandir allt it ýtra.
‘The lord of the Sygnir [NORWEGIAN KING = Sigurðr] went with the war-shield on the outer course all the way beyond islands and shores.’
Stanzas 32-3 describe Sigurðr’s harrying along the coast of Norway.
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