Ív Sig 34II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 34’ 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. 521.
text and translation
Fýstisk sunnan Sigurðr á lesti
með lítit lið lǫnd at sœkja.
Bjósk með hônum til herfarar
margs andvani Magnús konungr.
Á lesti fýstisk Sigurðr sunnan með lítit lið at sœkja lǫnd. Magnús konungr, andvani margs, bjósk með hônum til herfarar.
‘In the end, Sigurðr was eager [to travel] from the south with a small force to conquer the lands. King Magnús, deprived of much, prepared to join him on the war-expedition.’
notes and context
After their rampage along the coast of Norway, Sigurðr and Magnús sailed to Denmark. The following autumn (1139) they returned to Norway with thirty warships manned by Norwegians and Danes.
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