Nigh the sands of the shore.’
¶ Sailed thence Earl Eirik back to Sweden in the autumn and abode there a second winter; but in the spring made he ready his host and thereafter sailed eastward; & when he was come to the realm of King Valdamar fell he to plundering & slaying folk, burning whithersoever he went, and laying bare the land. Then coming to Aldeigiaborg[§] laid he siege unto it even until he had taken it, and then put he there many folk to the sword and utterly destroyed the town, and thereafter spread he war far and wide in Garda. Thus saith the Banda lay:
‘The chieftain fared forth to devastate with fire,
Yea and with sword (so waxed the sword-storm),
The lands of Valdamar.
Aldeigia brok’st thou, lord, when east thou cam’st to Garda
Well wot we how grim was the fight twixt the hosts.’
¶ For five summers together waged Earl Eirik this warfare, and when he left the realm of Garda he went fighting over the whole of Adalsysla & Eysysla;[§] there took he four viking boats from Danish men and slew all that were on the ships. It is thus spoken of in the Banda lay:
‘I heard where the swinger of the sword did battle
Once more in the isle-sound.