This treatment Amleth took with such forbearance as apparently to return kindness for slander, for he presented Wiglek with the richest of his spoils.

But afterwards he seized a chance of taking vengeance, attacked him, subdued him, and from a covert became an open foe.

Fialler, the governor of Skaane, he drove into exile; and the tale is that Fialler retired to a spot called Undensakre, which is unknown to our peoples.

After this, Wiglek, recruited with the forces of Skaane and Zealand, sent envoys to challenge Amleth to a war.

Amleth, with his marvellous shrewdness, saw that he was tossed between two difficulties, one of which involved disgrace and the other danger.