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/* Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway), c.1225AD */
:<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
::<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."
::<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.""
::<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."
* Saga of Harald Hardrade: Part II
:* OF KING SVEIN'S ARMAMENT.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And when King Svein's '''banner''' was cut down, and his ship cleared of its crew, all his forces took to flight, and some were killed.
:* KING HARALD'S BATTLE WITH EARL HAKON
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Earl Hakon had the same '''banner''' which had belonged to King Magnus Olafson.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">When the war-cry was raised the earl let his '''banner''' advance; but when they came under the hill the king's army rushed down upon them, and killed some of the earl's people, and the rest fled. The Northmen did not pursue the fugitives long, for it was the fall of day; but they took Earl Hakon's '''banner''' and all the arms and clothes they could get hold of. King Harald had both the '''banners''' carried before him as they marched away. They spoke among themselves that the earl had probably fallen. As they were riding through the forest they could only ride singly, one following the other. Suddenly a man came full gallop across the path, struck his spear through him who was carrying the earl's '''banner'', seized the '''banner-staff''', and rode into the forest on the other side with the '''banner'''. When this was told the king he said, "Bring me my armour, for the earl is alive." Then the king rode to his ships in the night; and many said that the earl had now taken his revenge.
:* THORD'S DREAM.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">He saw a great battle-array on the land; and he thought both sides began to fight, and had '''many banners''' flapping in the air.
:* OF HARALD'S ORDER OF BATTLE.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">The king's '''banner''' was next the river, where the line was thickest. It was thinnest at the ditch, where also the weakest of the men were. When the earls advanced downwards along the ditch, the arm of the Northmen's line which was at the ditch gave way; and the Englishmen followed, thinking the Northmen would fly. The '''banner''' of Earl Morukare advanced then bravely.
:* THE BATTLE AT THE HUMBER.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">He ordered the '''banner''' which was called the '''Land-ravager''' to be carried before him, and made so severe an assault that all had to give way before it;
:* EARL TOSTE'S COUNSEL.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Then King Harald ordered his '''banner Land-ravager''' to be set up; and Frirek was the name of him who bore the '''banner'''.
:* OF KING HARALD'S ARMY.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">The king himself and his retinue were within the circle; and there was the '''banner''', and a body of chosen men. Earl Toste, with his retinue, was at another place, and had a '''different banner'''.
:* FALL OF KING HARALD.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">King Harald Sigurdson was hit by an arrow in the windpipe, and that was his death-wound. He fell, and all who had advanced with him, except those who '''retired with the banner'''. There was afterwards the warmest conflict, and Earl Toste had taken charge of the '''king's banner'''.
:* SKIRMISH OF ORRE.
::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Eystein Orre came up at this moment from the ships with the men who followed him, and all were clad in armour. Then Eystein got '''King Harald's banner Land-ravager'''; and now was, for the third time, one of the sharpest of conflicts, in which many Englishmen fell, and they were near to taking flight
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