The prince’s friends well ordered stand methinks. The leader of manly deeds,
The doughty dragon closed,
Outside the Niz, with shields, and one o’erlapped the other.’
¶ Ulf the Marshal brought his ship up alongside the royal ship, & bade her men place her well forward. Stein Herdason was on Ulf’s ship, and he chanted thus:
‘Ulf, the Marshal of the King,
Cheered us all on to battle;
The spears trembled when
The ships were rowed to the fight.
And, no doubt, the wise King’s
Valiant friend did bid his men