Every man was thinking of himself.

So we went across the town, and as we came near the western bridge the crowd grew very thick.
We heard before long that the army was as great as Odda had thought, and that they were going to Exeter.

Already the advance guard had gone forward, but this train of followers would hardly get clear of the town before daylight.

They had heard great accounts of our numbers, and I wished we had brought the ships up here at once.

There would have been a rout of the Danes.
But the place was strange to me, and to Odda also, so that we could not be blamed.
We got back by the way we came, and then knew that we could in no way take the boat to Poole.