18. FIFTEENTH BATTLE.
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After this appearance to him he turned about, and came to Poitou, where he plundered and burnt a merchant town called Varrande. Of this Ottar speaks:—
"Our young king, blythe and gay, Is foremost in the fray: Poitou he plunders, Tuskland burns,— He fights and wins where'er he turns."
And also Sigvat says:—
"The Norsemen's king is on his cruise, His blue steel staining, Rich booty gaining, And all men trembling at the news. The Norsemen's kings up on the Loire: Rich Partheney In ashes lay; Far inland reached the Norsemen's spear."