“Loud in Hafur’s echoing bay, Heard ye the din of battle bray, ’Twixt Kiötve rich, and Harald bold? Eastward sails the ships of war; The graven bucklers gleam afar, And dragons’ heads adorn the prows of gold. “Glittering shields of purest white, And swords, and Celtic falchions bright, And western chiefs the vessels bring: Loudly roar the wolfish rout, And maddening champions wildly shout. And long and loud the twisted hauberks ring. “Firm in fight they proudly vie With Him whose might will make them fly, Of Eastmen kings the warlike head. Forth his gallant fleet he drew, Soon as the hope of battle grew, But many a buckler brake ere Haklang bled. “Fled the lusty Kiötve then Before the Fair-haired king of Men, And bade the islands shield his flight. Warriors wounded in the fray, Beneath the thwarts all gasping lay, Where, headlong cast, they mourn’d the loss of light. “Gall’d by many a massive stone (Their golden shields behind them thrown), Homeward the grieving warriors speed; Swift from Hafur’s bay they hie: East-mountaineers o’er Jardar fly, And thirst for goblets of the sparkling mead.” Footnote 178: Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagra, cap. 19–25. p. 95–103. Snæfrida was, probably, a supernatural damsel—at least, on one side. So was Guendolen, in the bridal of Triermain; but the British Arthur broke the charm which bound _him_ in three months, while Harald was spell-bound for as many years. The description in Scott is exquisite. Footnote 179: Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagra, cap. 26. Footnote 180: Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagra, passim. Fragmentum Islandicum de Regibus Dano-Norvegicis (apud Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, tom. ii.). Footnote 181: Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagra, passim. Fragmentum Islandicum de Regibus Dano-Norvegicis (apud Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, tom. ii.). Footnote 182: Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagra, cap. 34. Footnote 183: Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagre, cap. 45. Footnote 184: Wallingford, Chronicon, p. 540. Theodoric, Historia Norwegica, cap. 2. Snorro, Haralld’s Saga ens Harfagra, cap. 42, 43.; necnon Saga Hakonar Goda, cap. 1. Footnote 185: Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Historia, p. 369. Simeonis Dunelmensis Hist. 204. Arembs de Mailros, p. 148. Saga Hakonar Goda, cap. 3, 4. p. 127–129. Footnote 186: Saga Hakonar Goda, cap. 4-15., passim. Footnote 187: See Introduction, page 33. Footnote 188: Saga Hakonar Goda, p. 139. Footnote 189: That on the constitution and laws of the ancient Scandinavians, in the next volume of this compendium. Footnote 190: Saga Hakonar Goda, cap. 17. Footnote 191: