Lisbon

Lisbon is the great city on the dividing line of Christian and heathen Spain, where Sigurd the Crusader fought one of his battles on the long voyage to Jerusalem. All the lands west of the city, the saga says, were held by the heathens, and here Sigurd had his battle and won great booty, fighting his way down the Iberian coast against the Moors. Lisbon is the corpus's image of the crusade's frontier — the city on the very edge between Christendom and al-Andalus, a waypoint on the Norwegian fleet's path of fire down toward the Mediterranean, one of the bright far cities the saga's reach extends to, where a king from the North did battle on the border of two faiths on his way to the Holy Land.