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Updated: June 23, 2025
Brave wights are on board there, as we shall surely know if we meet Olaf Tryggvason. Better is a gap in the King's fleet than a ship thus well-manned. Then said Olaf, the Swedish king, to the Earl: 'We ought not to fear joining battle with Olaf, though he have many ships.
And Olaf Tryggvason asked his men: 'Who is chief over this force that lies here nearest to us? They answered: 'We think it be Sweyn, King of Danes. Then said King Olaf: 'We need not fear that force; never did Danes win victory in battle when fighting on shipboard against Norsemen. Again asked King Olaf: 'Who lies there out beyond with so many ships?
The essence of this latter story is the hero's disappearance into fairyland, and the expectation of his return sometime in the future: a motive which has been very fruitful in Irish romance, and in the traditions of Arthur, Tryggvason, and Barbarossa, among countless others.
And so he bade his ships drop away sternwards; and then Earl Eric lay broadside on. King Olaf Tryggvason had laid the Long Snake between Short Snake and the Crane, and the smallest ships outside them. But Earl Eric, as each of these was disabled, caused it to be cut away, and pressed on to those that were behind.
He was told that it was Olaf Ericsson, King of Swedes. Then answered King Olaf: 'We need not fear Swedish horse-eaters; they will be more eager to lick up what is in their sacrificial bowls than to board Long Snake under our weapons. And yet again asked King Olaf Tryggvason: 'Who owns those large ships that lie out beyond the other squadrons?
They had a good journey, and got to Norway to the northwards and came into Thrandhome, and fell in with men there and asked for tidings. They were told that change of lords over the land had befallen, in that Earl Hakon had fallen and King Olaf Tryggvason had come in, and all Norway had fallen under his power.
OLAF TRYGGVASON, King of Norway, had sailed with a large fleet eastwards to Wendland, passing through the Danish king's dominion without his goodwill, and was now returning thence. He sailed with a light breeze and fair weather for Denmark, the smaller ships going before, and the larger ships following behind because they needed more wind.
Therefore sang Stefnir about Sigvaldi, the foul traitor who drew Tryggvason into a trap.
Then the coast became indented with creeks, and they directed their ships along the creeks. Now, before this, when Leif was with King Olaf Tryggvason, and the king had requested him to preach Christianity in Greenland, he gave him two Scotch people, the man called Haki, and the woman called Hækja.
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