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"Be of good cheer, king's daughter," says he, "for certes he and
I shall try the matter, or ever thou be given to him; yea, we
shall behold which may prevail against the other; and hereto I
pledge my life."
Thereafter, Helgi sent men with money in their hand to summon his
folk to him, and all his power is called together to Red-Berg:
and there Helgi abode till such time as a great company came to
him from Hedinsey; and therewithal came mighty power from Norvi
Sound aboard great and fair ships. Then King Helgi called to him
the captain of his ships, who was hight Leif, and asked him if he
had told over the tale of his army.
"A thing not easy to tell, lord," says he, "on the ships that
came out of Norvi Sound are twelve thousand men, and otherwhere
are half as many again."
Then bade King Helgi turn into the firth, called Varin's firth,
and they did so: but now there fell on them so fierce a storm and
so huge a sea, that the beat of the waves on board and bow was to
hearken to like as the clashing together of high hills broken.
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