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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: