Osmund would go with them, and so no fear for them was on our minds.
Then we got the soundest of the wounded down to the lower rampart, and drew off the men there towards the gateway, so that the Danes might think our movement was but a changing of guard; then we waited until we saw that the ships on the far bank had taken the ground.
Then we sallied out, and as I went I looked back once.

Three women stood alone on the hilltop, and one waved to us.

That was the Valkyria, for her mail sparkled in the sun; but I had eyes only for that one whom I thought I should not see again, whose little glove was on my heart.
Now, if we were desperate, Odda was not the man to waste any chance of victory that there might be.

We went swiftly up the long slope of Cannington hill, and fell on the post there before they on the main guard could reach them.

There was no withstanding the terrible onset of our Saxons; half that force was slain, and the rest were in full flight in a few minutes.
Then we went steadily down the hill to where Hubba himself waited for us.