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 army of Northmen that followed him southwards to the Danish wall, to defend his kingdom on that side. So it is told in the "Vellekla":—

The Emperor Otto came with his army from the south to the Danish wall, but Earl Hakon defended the rampart with his men. The Dane-work was con¬ structed in this way:—Two fiords run into the land, one on each side; and in the farthest bight of these fiords the Danes had made a great wall of stone, turf, and timber, and dug a deep and broad ditch in front of it, and had also built a castle over each gate of it. There was a hard battle there, of which the "Vellekla" speaks:—