For even as that soul is slippery, which hides its insolent treachery by stealthy arts, so is it right that whatsoever is akin to guilt should be frail and fleeting.

For guilt has been usually found to come home to its author; and rumour relates that such was the fate of Swerting.

For he had resolved to surprise the king under the pretence of a banquet, and burn him to death; but the king forestalled and slew him, though slain by him in return.

Hence the crime of one proved the destruction of both; and thus, though the trick succeeded against the foe, it did not bestow immunity on its author.
Frode was succeeded by his son Ingild, whose soul was perverted from honour.

He forsook the examples of his forefathers, and utterly enthralled himself to the lures of the most wanton profligacy.