This they did at the appointed time; and when they had captured him, they ordered the figure of an eagle to be cut in his back, rejoicing to crush their most ruthless foe by marking him with the cruellest of birds.

Not satisfied with imprinting a wound on him, they salted the mangled flesh.

Thus Ella was done to death, and Biorn and Siward went back to their own kingdoms.
Iwar governed England for two years.

Meanwhile the Danes were stubborn in revolt, and made war, and delivered the sovereignty publicly to a certain SIWARD and to ERIK, both of the royal line.

The sons of Ragnar, together with a fleet of 1,700 ships, attacked them at Sleswik, and destroyed them in a conflict which lasted six months.