Harald III
The requirements of this verse form were so demanding that occasionally the text of the poems had to run parallel, with one thread of syntax running through the on-side of the half-lines, and another running through the off-side. According to the "Fagrskinna" collection of sagas, King Harald III of Norway uttered these lines of "dróttkvætt" at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; the internal assonances and the alliteration are emboldened: