ki's. Then a man raised a white shield and galloped toward
King Harald.

"We are ready!" he shouted.

At the same time King Haki raised a red shield. King Harald's men put
their shields before their mouths and shouted into them. It made a great
roaring war-cry.

"Up with the war shield!" shouted King Harald. "Horns blow!"

There was a blowing of horns on both sides. The two armies galloped down
into the field and ran together. The fight had begun.

All that day long swords were flashing, spears flying, men shouting, men
falling from their horses, swords clashing against shields.

"Victory flashes from that dragon," Harald's men said, pointing to the
king's helmet. "No one stands before it."

And, surely, before night came, King Haki fell dead under "Foes'-fear."
When he fell, a great shout went up from his warriors, and they turned
and fled. King Harald's men chased them far, but during the night came
back to camp. Many brought swords and helmets and bracelets or
silver-trimmed saddles and bridles with them.

"Here is what we got from the foe," they said.

The next morning King Harald spoke to his men:

"Let us go about and find our dead."

[Illustration: "_King Haki fell dead under 'Foes'-fear'_"]

So they went over all the battle-field. They put every man on his shield
and carried him and laid him on a hill-top. They hung his sword over his
shoulder and laid his spear by his side. So they laid all the dead
together there on the hill-top. Then King Harald said, looking about:

"This is a good place to lie. It looks far over the country. The sound
of the sea reaches it. The wind sweeps here. It is a good grave for
Norsemen and Vikings. But it is a long road and a rough road to Valhalla
that these men must travel. Let the nearest kinsman of each man come and
tie on his hell-shoes. Tie them fast, for they will need them much on
that hard road."

So friends tied shoes on the dead men's feet. Then King Harald said:

"Now let us make the mound."

Every man set to work with what tools he had and heaped earth over the
dead until a great mound stood up. They piled stones on the top. On one
of these stones King Harald made runes telling how these men had died.

After that was done King Harald said:

"Now set up the pole, Thorstein. Let every man bring to that pole all
that he took from the foe."

So they did, and there was a great hill of things around it. Harald
divided it into piles.

"This pile we wil