"Today they despised us, and bore it not forward; therefore it flapped not, seeing that there was no wind where it hung." The ealdorman called us together then, and pointed to the Danes who were massed beyond the river.
"Now it is time for us to go.

We have won a good fight, and some of us are yet alive.

It will not be well to lose all by biding here to be slain to the last man now.

Shall we go to Bridgwater or to the Quantocks, and so to Taunton ?" Then Heregar said: "To the hills; for we should be penned in Bridgwater between this force and the other.

I think that while we are yonder they will not do much on this side the Parret; and men will ever gather to us." Then we took our wounded and went back to the fort--four hundred men out of six hundred who sallied out, where we thought that none would return.