Our work, I trow, arouses grief in Svein.
In the town spent I last night:
Ere the eighth hour the flames shot up from the houses.’
¶ Likewise Thorleik telleth in his poem that he heard that no battle befell at the River:
‘Among the King’s followers
Each asks who doth not wot it
How ’twas that the prince avenger
To Heidaby did hie him,
When Harald from the east with ships
Sped early, without reason,