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/* Master Wace, The Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (Roman de Rou), c.1174 */
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===Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway), c.1225AD===
* Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"The sharp bow-shooter on the sea
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Spread wide his fleet, for well loved he
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">The battle storm: well loved the earl
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">His battle-banner to unfurl,
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">O'er the well-trampled battle-field
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">He raised the red-moon of his shield;
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And often dared King Eirik's son
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">To try the fray with the Earl Hakon." [LAING 1844]
* Harald Harfager's Saga
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">The forecastle men were picked men, for they had the king's banner." [LAING 1844]
* Saga of Harald Hardrade: Part I
**OF ULF AND HALDOR.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"When Harald came to the castle gate his standard-bearer fell, and Harald said to Haldor, "Do thou take up the banner now." Haldor took up the banner, and said foolishly, "Who will carry the banner before thee, if thou followest it so timidly as thou hast done for a while?" But these were words more of anger than of truth; for Harald was one of the boldest of men under arms."
**BATTLE AT A FOURTH CASTLE.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"The coffin was borne high in the air, and over it was a tent of costly linen and before it were carried
many banners."
**TREATY BETWEEN HARALD AND SVEIN BROKEN.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"A little after this it happened that Harald and Svein one evening were sitting at table drinking and talking together, and Svein asked Harald what valuable piece of all his property he esteemed the most.<br>
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">He answered, it was his banner Land-waster.<br>
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Svein asked what was there remarkable about it, that he valued it so highly.<br>
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Harald replied, it was a common saying that he must gain the victory before whom that banner is borne, and it had turned out so ever since he had owned it.<br>
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Svein replies, "I will begin to believe there is such virtue in the banner when thou hast held three battles with thy relation Magnus, and hast gained them all.""
**THE FALL OF EINAR AND EINDRIDE.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"After Einar's murder the king was so much disliked for that deed that there was nothing that prevented the lendermen and bondes from attacking the king, and giving him battle, but the want of some leader to raise the banner in the bonde army."
==Late Roman Draco Standards==
