For those dead and senseless shapes restored the original number of the army so well, that the mass might have been unthinned by the slaughter of yesterday.

The Britons, terrified at the spectacle, fled before fighting, conquered by the dead men whom they had overcome in life.

I cannot tell whether to think more of the cunning or of the good fortune of this victory.

The Danes came down on the king as he was tardily making off, and killed him.

Amleth, triumphant, made a great plundering, seized the spoils of Britain, and went back with his wives to his own land.
Meanwhile Rorik had died, and Wiglek, who had come to the throne, had harassed Amleth's mother with all manner of insolence and stripped her of her royal wealth, complaining that her son had usurped the kingdom of Jutland and defrauded the King of Leire, who had the sole privilege of giving and taking away the rights of high offices.