The Heimskringla on Thord

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 239. Thorgeir Of Kviststad'S Fall.

• attestation: Banner-bearer Thord stuck the banner-pole fast in the earth then fell dead beneath it from a death-wound.

  "Thord stuck the banner-pole so fast in the earth that it remained standing. Thord had got his death-wound, and fell beneath the banner."

Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 84. Thord'S Dream.

• attestation: A man named Thord dreamt he saw Harald's fleet approaching England, where a great battle was about to begin with many banners on both sides.

  "He dreamt one night that he saw King Harald's fleet coming to land, and he knew the land to be England. He saw a great battle-array on the land"

• attestation: Before the English army rode a huge witch-wife on a wolf that held a man's corpse in its mouth, blood dripping from its jaws, devouring body after body.

  "before the army of the people of the country was riding a huge witch-wife upon a wolf; and the wolf had a man's carcass in his mouth, and the blood was dropping from his jaws"