"Then my luck was less than I thought," said he.
"Great enough was the misfortune," replied they; "but thou shalt not make it greater." And they killed him on the spot.
The dead were then ransacked, and the booty brought all together to be divided; and there were twenty-five ships of the Jomsburg vikings in the booty. So says Finn Halkelson:—
"Many a viking's body lay
Dead on the deck this bloody day,
Before they cut their sun-dried ropes,
And in quick flight put all their hopes.
He whom the ravens know afar
Cleared five-and-twenty ships of war:
A proof that in the furious fight
None can withstand the Norsemen's might."
Then the army dispersed. Earl Hakon went to Drontheim, and was much displeased that Earl Eric had given quarter to Yagn Aakeson. It was said that at this battle Earl Hakon had sacrificed for victory his son, young Erling, to the gods; and instantly came the hail-storm, and the defeat and slaughter of the Jomsburg vikings.
Earl Eric went to the Uplands, and eastward by that route to his own kingdom, taking Aakeson with him. Earl Eric married Yagn to Ingebiorg, a daughter of Thorkel Leire, and gave him a good ship of war and all belonging to it, and a crew; and they parted the best of friends. Then Yagn went home south to Denmark, and became afterwards a man of great consideration, and many great people are descended from him.
Chapter XLVIII.
King Harald Grajnske's death.
Harald Grænske, as before related, was king in Westfold, and was married to Aasta, a daughter of Gudbrand Ivule. One summer Harald Grænske made an expedition to the Baltic to gather property, and he came to Sweden. Olaf Swenske was king there, a son of Eric the Yictorious, and Sigrid, a daughter of Skoglar Toste. Sigrid was then a widow, and had
