Oft hath the peace of the chieftain been broken;
The gray eagle’s sharp claws
In blood didst thou dye, King,
Ever was the wolf filled ere thou fared’st homeward.’
¶ Harald with his men had now betaken themselves to Jorsalaland (Palestine) and thence to Jorsalaborg (Jerusalem), and whithersoever he went in Jorsalaland were all the towns and castles surrendered unto him; thus saith Stuf, who had himself heard the King recount these things:
‘The blade-bold smiting warrior
To subjection brought Jerusalem.
The smiling land was captive to him and the Greeks,
And by their might, unburned withal,
Came the country under the warrior’s dictate.’