warships
Ellithi and Gnoeth and the Long Serpent.

So he ordered his men to prepare themselves for battle--

"For we must slay King Halfdan and seize his warship."

A man called Saevar, his fo'c'sle-man and marshal, made answer:

"That is not advisable, Sire, for Halfdan is a great chief and a
famous man. Moreover he has two sons who will be certain to avenge
him, for they are both very famous men already."

"Though they be superior to the very gods," said Soerli, "yet we shall
fight just as we have done before."

They prepared for battle, and the news reached King Halfdan. He
started up and went with all his men to his ships, and they prepared
them for battle at once. Some of Halfdan's men protested to him that
it was not advisable to fight, and suggested that he should take to
flight as the odds were too heavy against them. The King replied that
they would all fall dead one on the top of another before he would
flee.

Both sides now prepared to give battle, and closed forthwith in a
fierce combat, the result of which was that King Halfdan fell with all
his host; and Soerli took possession of the warship and everything on
it that was of value.

Then Soerli learned that Hoegni had returned from a raiding expedition
and was lying off Odinso. Soerli set off thither with his ships, and
when they met, he told him of the death of Halfdan, his father, and
made him an offer of reconciliation on his own terms, suggesting also
that they should become foster-brothers; but Hoegni declined all his
offers. Then they joined battle, as is told in the poem dealing
with Soerli. Haakon fought very boldly and slew Saevar, Soerli's
standard-bearer and fo'c'sle-man. Then Soerli slew Haakon, but Hoegni
slew King Erling, Soerli's father. After that Hoegni and Soerli fought
together, and Soerli went down before Hoegni from weariness and wounds.
And Hoegni afterwards caused him to be healed of his wounds, and they
swore foster-brotherhood to one another, and both remained true to
their oaths as long as they lived. Soerli was the first to die. He fell
in the Baltic at the hands of vikings, as is told in the poem of which
he is the subject.

And when Hoegni heard of Soerli's death, he went raiding in the Baltic
the same summer, and was victorious everywhere. He became king over
those regions; and it is said that twenty kings were vassals to King
Hoegni and paid him tribute. Hoegni became so famous on account of his
great deeds and his