Quick one on the significance of the Red Arrow.
In Egil's Saga we find:
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King Audbjorn sent around an arrow of war as a signal to call men to arms throughout his kingdom & dispatched messengers to powerful men asking them to meet him.
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Or in another translation it reads:
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By such persuasion king Arnvid was determined to gather his forces and defend his land. He and Solvi made a league, and sent messengers to Audbjorn, king of the Firthfolk, that he should come and help them. Audbjorn, after counsel taken with friends, consented, and bade cut the war-arrow and send the war-summons throughout his realm, with word to his nobles that they should join him.
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'Cutting the war arrow' seems quite similar to the painted mark on the Red Arrow....