Nor was he deceived in his presage; for he straightway slew Froger, and by this petty trick won the greatest name for bravery; for he gained by craft what had been permitted to no man's strength before.
After him DAN came to the throne.

When he was in the twelfth year of his age, he was wearied by the insolence of the embassies, which commanded him either to fight the Saxons or to pay them tribute.

Ashamed, he preferred fighting to payment and was moved to die stoutly rather than live a coward.

So he elected to fight; and the warriors of the Danes filled the Elbe with such a throng of vessels, that the decks of the ships lashed together made it quite easy to cross, as though along a continuous bridge.

The end was that the King of Saxony had to accept the very terms he was demanding from the Danes.
After Dan, FRIDLEIF, surnamed the Swift, assumed the sovereignty.