Loosened from the knots of its fastening, it fell violently on the ground, and slew those beneath it.
Thereupon those who had the charge of committing the crime brought in a light, that they might learn clearly what had happened, and saw that Ebb, on whose especial account they had undertaken the affair, had wisely been equal to the danger.

He straightway set on them and punished them with death; and also, after losing his men in the mutual slaughter, he happened to find a vessel, crossed a river full of blocks of ice, and announced to Gotar the result, not so much of his mission as of his mishap.
Gotar judged that this affair had been inspired by Siward, and prepared to avenge his wrongs by arms.

Siward, defeated by him in Halland, retreated into Jutland, the enemy having taken his sister.

Here he conquered the common people of the Sclavs, who ventured to fight without a leader; and he won as much honour from this victory as he had got disgrace by his flight.

But a little afterwards, the men whom he had subdued when they were ungeneraled, found a general and defeated Siward in Funen.