“Toil-mighty leader ruled
Westward the most of war-hosts;
Sea’s mare sped ’neath the lord king
Unto the English lea-land.
The fight-glad king let keel rest,
And winter-long there bided;
No better king there strideth
From out of Vimur’s falcon.”
Translation of Wm. Morris.
The story of the life of the early Icelander is well told in the introduction of the Burnt Njal by Sir George W. Dasent from which I quote the following:—