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NOTES 137
been upstanding, and saw that it was all laid to the ground. He rode
round about and said: ‘I look forward to this, goodman, that God
will right thy loss, and that this field will be better in another week’s
time.’ And even as the king had said, that acre was of the best. The
king tarried there the night, and arrayed his journey the next morning.
He says that goodman Thorgeir shall fare with him, but Thorgeir bade
his two sons for the journey. The king says they should not fare with
him, but the lads would go, and the king bade them abide behind. But
whereas they would not be letted, the king’s courtiers would bind them.
The king said when he saw that: ‘ Let them fare; they will come back
again.’ And it went with the boys even as the king had said.” (Chap-
ter 224.)
PacE 64. Lord, what guerdon awaits us, Who follow?
Olaf’s answer to this question recalls the words of Ibsen’s Brand in
reply toa similar question from those who have followed him into the
mountains.
“How long the war will last?
As long as life, till ye have cast
All ye possess before the Lord,
And slain the Spirit of Accord;
Until your stiff will bend and bow,
ind every coward scruple fall
Before the bidding: Nought or All!”
Another suggestion is found in the words of Garibaldi to the men who
followed him from Rome, and asked what their reward should be:
“Fame, sete, marcie forzate, battaglie, e morte.”
PaGE 65. The skalds sang at the prospect At eventide.
“Olaf’s favorite skald, Sighvat, was at that time on a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, but three others, Tormod Kolbrunarskald, Torfinn Mund,
and Gissur Guldbraarskald, were with him on the march.”
PaGE 67. Tore Bjarkot.
See introductory Note on The Summer March.
PaGE 68. Norsemen will sing it in ages Far distant.
Olaf said: ‘Ye shall be here, and see the tidings which here shall be
done; then there will be no need for others to tell you the tale, for ye
‘shall be the tellers thereof, and sing of it thereafter.”
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