CHAPTER VIII. OF GUNNLAUG IN IRELAND.
[Songs extracted from the prose narrative]
[“Swaru's steed]
[Gunnlaug.]
“Swaru's steed
Doth Sigtrygg feed.”
And this is therein also:
“Praise-worth I can
Well measure in man,
And kings, one by one—
Lo here, Kvaran's son!
Grudgeth the king
Gift of gold ring?
I, singer, know
His wont to bestow.
Let the high king say,
Heard he or this day,
Song drapu-measure
Dearer a treasure.”
[“Tell ye, staves of spear-din]
[Gunnlaug.]
“Tell ye, staves of spear-din,
How on sleek-side sea-horse
Oft this earl hath proven
Over-toppling billows;
But Eric, victory's ash-tree,
Oft hath seen in east-seas
More of high blue billows
Before the bows a-roaring.”
