Just then the grapnels parted, and there we were left, defending ourselves as best we could.

My mates got their oars and once more brought our boat alongside.

Grapple they could not, because the irons were lost.
Therefore, in obedience to the order which I shouted to them from the high prow of the enemy's ship, they began to hurl their ballast stones into her, and thus stove out her bottom, so that in the end she filled and sank.
Even while she was down the fray went on.

Nearly all my people were down; indeed but two remained to me when Steinar, not knowing who I was, rushed up and, having lost his sword, gripped me round the middle.
We wrestled, but Steinar, who was the stronger, forced me back to the bulwarks and so overboard.

Into the sea we went together just as the ship sank, drawing us down after her.