Could I but get thee in my power,
In pieces small I'd have thee hewn."
He sailed a day, he sailed three,
With all his mercenary band;
The fourth he Norway's shore did see,—
On Romsdal's coast he leapt to land,
And with him fourteen hundred men:
On mischief all that band were bent;
They spared nor young nor aged then,
But slew and burnt as on they went.