[1] The king then specified that he was to make the verses with the combatants being Sigurðr and Fafnir and then Thor and Geirröðr, but using kennings suited to the men's actual professions, both of which Þjóðólfr did, in a "playful tour de force".
[5] We also possess 35 stanzas of his Sexstefja, a poem about Harald's career composed some 20 years after the Magnúsflokkr, which must have been far longer, since the title implies that it had six burdens, or stef.
[11][12] The last is his final verse at Stamford Bridge, showing both loyalty to Harald (whom he speaks of as dead) and disapproval of the expedition to England[6] (hitherto unheard-of respect for the English as foes[13]).
[15][16]) In the Magnúsflokkr, his style has "baroque" features: he emphasises the burning of farms, states that these were the greatest battles yet fought, and has the stormy waves rolling the skulls of the Danish slain across the sea-floor.
Also the saga authors sometimes have difficulty interpreting the poems; in the case of Sexstefja, they are confused by references to "French", "Lombards" and "Bulgurs" into wrongly locating events.