But howsoever this may have been, never more returned King Olaf Tryggvason to his realm of Norway; yet in this wise speaketh Hallfrod the Troublous-skald:
‘He who the tidings told that the lord was living
Had long for Tryggvi’s trusted son a fighter been.
’Tis said the King from out the steel-storm came;
Alas, ‘tis worse than this, methinks, for of truth all facts are lacking.’
And this again:
‘When the land-host with men in numbers towards the Holder’s
War-wont King did fare, it scarce could be (so heard I)
That the King belovéd could with life escape
(Folk seemed not truth to tell) from out the battle.