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:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Kalf Arnason then raised his banner, and drew up his house-servants along with Harek of Thjotta and his men. Thorer Hund, with his troop, was at the head of the order of battle in front of the banner; and on both sides of Thorer was a chosen body ofbondes, all of them the most active and best armed in the forces. This part of the array was long and thick, and in it were drawn up the Throndhjem people and the Halogalanders. On the right wing was another array; and on the left of the main array were drawn up the men from Rogaland, Hordaland, the Fjord districts, and Scgn, and they had the third banner."

235. :* OF THE PREPARATIONS OF THE BONDES.:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"When the bondes' men and array were drawn up the lendermen addressed the men, and ordered them to take notice of the place to which each man belonged, under which banner each should be, who there were in front of the banner, who were his side-men, and that they should be brisk and quick in taking up their places in the array; for the army had still to go a long way, and the array might be broken in the course of march. Then they encouraged the people; and Kalf invited all the men who had any injury to avenge on King Olaf to place themselves under the banner which wasadvancing against King Olaf's own banner. They should remember the distress he had brought upon them; and, he said, never was there a better opportunity to avenge their grievances, and to free themselves from the yoke and slavery he had imposed on them. "Let him," says he, "be held a useless coward who does not fight this day boldly; and they are not innocents who are opposed to you, but people who will not spare you if ye spare them."

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236. OF THE KING'S AND THE BONDES' ARMIES.Thereafter the bondes' army advanced to Stiklestad, where KingOlaf was already with his people. Kalf and Harek went in front,at the head of the army under their banners. 238. :* BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF STIKLESTAD.:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Now came Thorer Hund, went forward in front of the banner withhis troop, and called out, "Forward, forward, bondemen!" <br>    ::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Midst in their line their banner flies,<br> ::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Thither the stoutest bonde hies:<br> ::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">But many a bonde thinks of home,<br> ::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And many wish they ne'er had come."   Now the ranks in front of the king'sbanner began to be thinned, and the king ordered Thord to carrythe banner forward, and the king himself followed it with thetroop he had chosen to stand nearest to him in battle; and thesewere the best armed men in the field, and the most expert in theuse of their weapons. Sigvat the skald tells of this: --  "Loud was the battle-storm there, Where the king's banner flamed in air. The king beneath his banner stands, And there the battle he commands."<br>