"We want to help as much as you, but here we have to stay.

Be quiet." "Ay, or we will bind you again," said another man shortly.
But neither looked toward me; their eyes were on the road inland, down which we could not see, for it opened at the end of the wharf.
Now a wounded man or two crawled down that road, and some of the guard helped them to the ships.

They growled fiercely when their comrades asked how things went, and thereby I knew that it was ill for the Danes.

The houses nearer the wharves were burning one after another, as they were driven back.
At last there came a rush of Danes down that road, and into the seaward houses they went, and fired them.

Then they came on board the ships, and bade the ship guard relieve them at the front.