Earl Hring and Adils his brother made ready their army,
and at once in the night moved southwards for the heath.
But when day dawned, Thorolf's sentries saw the army approaching.
Then was a war-blast blown, and men donned their arms selects
spirited and that they began to draw up the force,
and they had two divisions.
Earl Alfgeir commanded one division,
and the standard was borne before him.
In that division were his own followers,
and also what force had been
gathered from the countryside.
It was a much larger fours than
that which followed Thorolf and Egil.

Thorolf was thus armed.
He had a shield ample and stout,
a right strong helmet on his head;
he was girded with the sword
that he called Long,
a weapon large and good.
If his hand he had a halberd,
whereof the feather-formed
blade was two ells long,
ending in a four-edged spike;
the blade was broad above,
the socket both long and thick.
The shaft stood just high enough for
the hand to grasp the socket,
and was remarkably thick.
The socket fitted with iron prong on the shaft,
which was also wound round with iron.
Such weapons were called mail-piercers.