And again he further sang:

'With warriors slain round standard
The western field I burdened;
Adils with my blue Adder
Assailed mid snow of war.
Olaf, young prince, encountered
England in battle thunder:
Hring stood not stour of weapons,
Starved not the ravens' maw.'

Then went Egil and those about him to seek king Athelstan,
and at once went before the king,
where he sat at the drinking.
There was much noise of merriment.
And when the king saw that Egil was come in,
he bade the lower bench be cleared for them,
and that Egil should sit in the high-seat facing the king.
Egil sat down there, and cast his shield before his feet.
He had his helm on his head, and laid his sword across his knees;
and now and again he half drew it, then clashed it back into the sheath.
He sat upright, but with head bent forward.

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