Part 18 - Fifteenth Battle

After this appearance to him he turned about, and came to Poitou, where he plundered and burnt a merchant town called Varrande.

Of this Ottar speaks: —

"Our young king, blythe and gay,
Is foremost in the fray:
Poitou he plunders, Tuskland burns, —
He fights and wins where'er he turns."

And also Sigvat says: —

"The Norsemen's king is on his cruise,
His blue steel staining,
Rich booty gaining,
And all men trembling at the news.
The Norsemen's kings up on the Loire:
Rich Partheney
In ashes lay;
Far inland reached the Norsemen's spear."